NOT FUN!!!

[swampduc]

maybe the DMF can get gripmasters in bulk at a discount and print the DMF logo on them.

on a more serious note, if people don't want to (or can't) lane split in those situations, you can vary your hold on the clutch...switch from full hand to middle and index finger and back.   Hold all the way out at bar end switching to all the way in tight...pull with fingers versus rotating your hand down to squeeze more with fleshy part at base of fingers on lever...   should be able to survive a few hours that way.    

But I thought you were serious. I'm about to get my first dry clutch machine, so I'd definitely buy a DMF Gripmaster 

[pennyrobber]

I was actually thinking of designing a clutch slave to make the pull even harder. We need to seperate the bacon eaters from the quiche eaters.

[BastrdHK]

Quiche....haha....what would we do w/o the Frenchies

[JDucati]

Statler.   I gotta say that is the hardest thing I have ever done on a bike.  Rolling along at slower than walking speeds with feet on the pegs on a highway.  I have only put 500 miles on my m800.  But I must say after that, my confidence in stop and go traffic in town increased 20 fold.

Thanks Ducati

~JD

[bluemoco]

ahhh...but clutch work is how to do that...should be able to crawl along at slower than walking speed at a consistent crawl with feet up on pegs at any rpm.  Just takes practice.

Another helpful hint I picked up at the MSF ERC course - "Drag" the rear brake at slow speeds.  It really helps to stabilize the bike.   

[il d00d]

I have never understood this.  WTF is so girly about quiche?  It is egg and cheese and, if done correctly, bacon.  It's delicious. 

Amorphous mound of scrambled eggs with stuff mixed in = National Breakfast of America

Eggs with the same stuff mixed in, in a pie crust = gay breakfast terrorism

Why?   


+1 on dragging the rear brake.  Also, if you are coming from an I4, you might need to adjust to the different powerband a bit more before you find your low-speed traffic groove.

[herm]

its the pie crust...
and the baking in the oven thing.

[gregrnel]

It's also traditionally made with Bette Midler blasting in the background.

its the pie crust...
and the baking in the oven thing.

[GLantern]

Pansies! All of you!  Try a 1098 in stop and go traffic with SS Springs 

[oldjackbob]

I don't know what everyone's talking about.  On my '75 Norton, the clutch pull was so hard that the far-end cable ferrule kept pulling off and falling into the bottom of the gearbox. I finally got tired of buying new factory cables and had a custom heavy-duty cable fabricated that worked like a charm after that.  No telling how many ferrules were rattling around in the gearbox when I finally sold that bike, though.   

But that's what I was used to, so I never thought twice about it.   

[il d00d]

its the pie crust...
and the baking in the oven thing.

By this line of reasoning
apple + cinnamon + sugar = sexuality-neutral snack
apple + cinnamon + sugar + pie crust = delicious paradox

Apple

It's also traditionally made with Bette Midler blasting in the background.

.. which is what I gather you were listening to for that whole 15 mins you were stuck in traffic  ?





just keeeeeding   

[corndog67]

I assume that you are in a state where you can't split lanes.   One of the reasons I like to ride motorcycles is that I don't wait for anyone or any traffic, down between the lanes all the time.

[Triple J]

By this line of reasoning
apple + cinnamon + sugar = sexuality-neutral snack
apple + cinnamon + sugar + pie crust = delicious paradox

Desserts are exempt from the food in crust = gay breakfast terrorism rule. Everyone knows that! 

[ProTeal55]

Might be a stupid question but why would have Stainless steel springs make the clutch harder to pull.
Are the springs harder than stock (and thus makes it harder to pull the cluch in) ?
I ask becasue I just bought some SS springs for the scoot

[lauramonster]

How long have you been riding your duc?

The clutch was fine on my S2R.  slow speed drop, and all the dealer had was CRG clutch lever.  Took a week or two to get used to. 














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