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So rough day at the track. Accelerating hard out of the penultimate turn - short straight before the final turn - and I get some massive headshake. There was no noticeable wheelie and/or crossed up landing (I'll post the video when I get home). Anyway when it stops I'm headed off into the grass and end up losing the front in the outfield. Bike slides on the left side for a little bit and jacks up my left rearset. I get back to the pits and throw on my spare and the gearbox is stuck in neutral. The lever moves what seems to be full throw with a little bit of resistance but I can't select first or second.
So two issues:
1) anyone else have big headshake like this with the stock 1098 steering damper? Is it inadequate?
2) more importantly, how bad do you think my gearbox is? Would you fix it yourself or take it to the *gasp* dealer? I'm pretty mechanically inclined, installed a slipper on my own, swapped Showa forks for Ohlins cartridges, full Termi, swingarm swap, etc.
I should add that I suspect some other worn component of the gearbox since it's a 2007, and I've had a several instances lately where I'm trying to downshift from 6th on a long straight and the gearbox goes into a false neutral. Multiple stabs at the shift lever with the clutch pulled in and rev matching on the throttle and eventually it drops into 5th. I turned on the pull direction of my QS to help with those downshifts and it worked for the most part. Only had that 6th gear false neutral once since.
Background: 20k miles on the stock motor and gearbox. The first 10k or so was primarily canyons. The last ~10k was a mix of track and canyon. And only just installed a quickshifter this year, three track days ago.
So two issues:
1) anyone else have big headshake like this with the stock 1098 steering damper? Is it inadequate?
2) more importantly, how bad do you think my gearbox is? Would you fix it yourself or take it to the *gasp* dealer? I'm pretty mechanically inclined, installed a slipper on my own, swapped Showa forks for Ohlins cartridges, full Termi, swingarm swap, etc.
I should add that I suspect some other worn component of the gearbox since it's a 2007, and I've had a several instances lately where I'm trying to downshift from 6th on a long straight and the gearbox goes into a false neutral. Multiple stabs at the shift lever with the clutch pulled in and rev matching on the throttle and eventually it drops into 5th. I turned on the pull direction of my QS to help with those downshifts and it worked for the most part. Only had that 6th gear false neutral once since.
Background: 20k miles on the stock motor and gearbox. The first 10k or so was primarily canyons. The last ~10k was a mix of track and canyon. And only just installed a quickshifter this year, three track days ago.