While doing a gear selector adjustment a couple of days ago i I suddenly lost control of the movement of the gear lever. Lately, I needed to do a slight up before going down to get 1st gear so while doing a gear selector adjustment, I noticed this issue. A bit less than half of the boss that the gear selector shaft slides into and supports the shaft was lying on the bottom of the case. Not good. Years ago, while heading home to Sydney from Tassie, I had a tipover trying to do a U-turn on a steep hill. I stopped mid-turn to check for traffic and needed a 100mm longer leg, and over it went. I had also bent the rearset gear lever, and that force must have cracked the case cover as well. I also snapped the 34-year-old battery strap, allowing the battery ignition earth wire to stretch and snap 50mm away from the battery and under the insulation. The bike bearly ran for the next 400 km till, thankfully, a couple of clever blokes ran a temporary ignition loom that got me home. So that gear selector issue was waiting to bite for close to 10 years and was probably responsible for a bodgy gear change the bike has had for all that time. So if you're in this area, have a look for any cracks in this boss. My foot pegs are the pivoting type, so I guess non-pivoting pegs protect the gear lever from damage.
Hidden Crash Damage.
- Thread starter Vince
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chrisk
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- Brisbane, Australia
Those fold up pegs have a lot to answer for…. a mates DR650 kissed the dirt and put the gear lever through the case.
Riding through bull dust on the way to Cape York, that was so deep my legs below the knees were dragging over the top, I hit solid ground and near garrotted myself when my feet went to the pegs, which remained folded up because both left and right peg return springs broke from being waved around through the bull dust.
Riding through bull dust on the way to Cape York, that was so deep my legs below the knees were dragging over the top, I hit solid ground and near garrotted myself when my feet went to the pegs, which remained folded up because both left and right peg return springs broke from being waved around through the bull dust.
It's pretty clever the way Laverda designed this, way better to brake a case cover in a crash than the actual crank cases or have that force transmitted to the actual internal gear shafts. I really like my folding rear set footpegs; they don't dig in while cornering and allow easy padding flicked up while parking. I might look at some form of Ogre Knobs, thought, crash protectors. I think I saw some recently on a twin being sorted on here.
Andy
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- Auckland, roughly
