Alright, first off, to all of you who wished me the best of luck and told me my purchase was well worth it, I wish to thank you. The XS650 is a great bike, there's no doubt about that, and on a straight today I managed to find out that the bike would reach 90mph (clocked by a second bike) and was still pulling, so I have no doubt about the reliability or condition of the bike.
Second, after awhile (aka when my transmission started to heat up) it seemed like my clutch wanted to never disengage. I had quite a few intersections where the bike refused to enter neutral, leaving me with a tired left hand. And, many times, the bike would pull quite significantly at intersections with the clutch pulled as far as the strength my left hand can pull it, as if in gear, and I ran into an incident where the bike had appeared to be in first gear but really was in second, resulting in an embarassing stall mid-intersection.
I have a hunch this has something to do with either my clutch cable stretching or something heating up, or perhaps just a badly set clutch tension. Any ideas? I know my clutch itself is fine because I never witnessed any slippage, just an abudance of grippage when I didn't always want it. Any of you guys have any thoughts short of tightening the clutch cable? I might be doing a 200 mile ride tomorrow, so I'm really hoping I can get this all sorted out overnight. Highways it's no problem, but I won't be on the highway only.
Second, after awhile (aka when my transmission started to heat up) it seemed like my clutch wanted to never disengage. I had quite a few intersections where the bike refused to enter neutral, leaving me with a tired left hand. And, many times, the bike would pull quite significantly at intersections with the clutch pulled as far as the strength my left hand can pull it, as if in gear, and I ran into an incident where the bike had appeared to be in first gear but really was in second, resulting in an embarassing stall mid-intersection.
I have a hunch this has something to do with either my clutch cable stretching or something heating up, or perhaps just a badly set clutch tension. Any ideas? I know my clutch itself is fine because I never witnessed any slippage, just an abudance of grippage when I didn't always want it. Any of you guys have any thoughts short of tightening the clutch cable? I might be doing a 200 mile ride tomorrow, so I'm really hoping I can get this all sorted out overnight. Highways it's no problem, but I won't be on the highway only.