| Author | Message | ||
     Dschley |
My bro just came over and saw my bike today. Now, I don't let anyone ride my bike, but my brother is the reason I am riding cycles today. So I tell him "Hop on, take it around the blocl." This is the first time I heard my bike w/o me on it, so I was kinda excited. Keep in mind, I just had the oil changed and tranny fluid(75w-90 mobil 1) about 130miles ago. My brother hops on and puts it in gear and rolls down the street. I am thinking, "That race exhuast sounds good........" Then KADUNK, second gear, KADUNK, third gear. Now he is a football field length away and I still hear it go into 4th. Man, that sounds terrible. It shifts fine and smoothly when I am on it. The shifting is louder than the race pipe, what gives. I know the tranny is klunky, but gosh! It kinda lets me down. Even when he came back, I heard KADUNK!!, KADUNK!!, KADUNK!!, nuetral. =( What can I do to quite it down? | ||
| Bigbuell |
Dschley I have and new 06XB12ss and the tranny is smooth compared the the last generation trannies. My friends 05XB9s shifts hard and my brothers Sportster shifts the same way, KLUNK every time they shift the bike. And yes, you can hear it shift sometimes a couple streets away. But you do know that its going into gear every time you shift. | ||
| M1combat |
You could just take it out... | ||
| Superbee24 |
Kadunk  Kadunk Kadunk I personally like the sound. It's mechanical. Sounds....well....cool | ||
| Cataract2 |
Eh, constant mesh trans. Clunky as all get out. I loooooooooove the 06 trannys. | ||
| Ccemn1 |
Shouldn't that be "Constant Mess"? No, I'm sorry, that was what I had in my '71 Sportster. Had to rebuild it 3 times in the first year as a new bike! But as everyone knows, that was the dreaded AMC revenge! | ||
| Earwig |
in 06 they changed all the gears to a helical (sp) cut/shape... pre-06 yeah... they are all hard as hell. | ||
| Shea |
Motorcycles generally don't like to be shifted slow. The less time you take to let off the throttle, pull in the clutch, shift, let the clutch out, give it throttle, the smoother they will shift. Shifting in one fluid motion and swiftly generally fixes the problem. Some people don't realize that and just shift slow and causes a much bigger clunk than usual. | ||
| Dschley |
I guess just deal with it. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Cc, I gotta ask. Are you going to pop in every thread to put out sarcastic crap on these bikes? If so your keeping my troll stamp of approval. Christ, you've gone and screwed up one thread and now you pop in here with more crap. No wonder you got kicked off another forum 25+ times. That's not something I would brag about man. Cool you heals for, oh, about 10 months and then maybe you can do some sarcastic crap in threads on a min. level. God... | ||
| Djkaplan |
Phhhhhfffft... you XB guys got it good. My tuber has been crushing rocks for 6 years now. The words I heard from a Buell tech keep coming back to me, "It sounds like it's breaking, but you can't break it". He was right. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Dj, what do you mean us XB guys? The 06 XB guys got it good with those new tranny's. I'm still using the same one you got. Sigh... I so want a Uly now... | ||
| Mr_cuell |
Man, I don't know that I have ever heard mine off the bike (04 12R). While it does not shift as well as a friends RC51, it shifts way better than the 98 883 I had, and plenty good enough for me sound (from the bike) and feel wise. I read somewhere that you have to make a deliberate effort to shift these, and that being smooth was not easy, but I have not found that to be true for my bike. It does what its supposed to I think. It is not liquid-smooth, but its not even want I would call chunky, much less clunky. Now you have me wanting to listen to it from off the bike! (or maybe I should stay blissfully unaware . . . ) Since I have yet to ride with another Bueller I have never heard anyone else's either.(they seem to be as common as Bigfoot around here - I catch fleeting glimpses when I am in the car. I could prove it to you but I never seem to have my camera. Dang.) | ||
| Djkaplan |
"I'm still using the same one you got. Sigh... " That's not exactly true. All XB's have the revised gearsets that fit between vertically split cases. All tubers had the traditional trapdoor transmissions that can be removed sideways. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Ah, ok, I thought they were the same. I stand corrected. | ||
| Metalstorm |
It is my opinion that only the XB guys who have 06 Firebolts & Ulys have it good. I prefer the older style tranny for the S models. Naked Streetfighters should be mean & noisy. I love the fact that my bike snarls & barks. The sportbikes are the ones that should be smooth & silky. I really like the new tranny in the 9&12R. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Oh God no Metal. Smooth shifting. That damn false neutral between 1st and 2nd drives me nuts sometimes. Gotta switch back to Mobil 1 in there. Damn HD dealer warranty repair on the stator... | ||
| Steve_mackay |
I've got an '06 CityX and a '98 S3T. While the '06 Cityx is smooth, positive shifts, I don't see it as *THAT* much better than my reworked S3T tranny. My S3T, when I blew out the right hand seal, I took the oppurtunity to remove the whole thing, polish the shift drum, chamfer the edges, etc... Using Redline synthetic, it shifts nice. Better than new IMHO. | ||
| Roc |
Dids it sound ok with you on it, like it did prior to service? You might want to make sure it has fluid. | ||
| Metalstorm |
Cat, You need to do what I did. Spend six years riding a Sportster. Mine was a 99 & it taught me how to shift smoothly. My 12S is in a much higher class than the ol' Sporty but works much the same. I havn't missed a shift yet. I havn't experienced a false neutral either but because I just said that I probably will.  The Sporty also made my left hand so strong that the clutch pull on the 12S seems very light. That's a bummer that you're finding false neutrals. I can see how that would be very frustrating indeed. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Metal, I'll leave the hand workouts for the gym.  As for the shifting. If I could shoehorn an 06 tranny into my bike, I would. The clutch pull really is a non issue to me. Might be because of the gym there. | ||
| Metalstorm |
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| Shea |
Well, out of 600 miles of riding, today was the first time I hit a false neutral. Luckily I was just putting around. I was fatigued from riding though and think I was just shifting sloppy. | ||
| Kowpow225 |
The 06 trannys still use a straight cut cog for first gear so you still get the *thock* when going into it. The rest are all helical cut. |
