Late Midlife Crisis

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  1. stollydriver

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    Hope you mean shiny side up? :p:p
     
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    Dartplayer Crème de la Crème

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    Hi The Gong and welcome to the forum :cool: lovely bike and good pic, sounds like you are enjoying your ride which is paramount at any age
     
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    By the way the 'gorilla clutch pull' might be a feature of the model...later ones have a longer arm at the lower end giving greater leverage .yours is an early model.
     
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  4. The Gong

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    You're absolutely right. RUBBER SIDE DOWN!!! o_O:laughing::laughing:
     
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    The Gong, Apr 13, 2020
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    On a long ride it sometimes gets to the point where I am lugging because I'm avoiding using the clutch. I'll look into replacing the clutch lever. Thanks for the suggestions.
     
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    The Gong, Apr 13, 2020
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    Welcome from South Australia.
    I am running a 2018 Tiger 800 XRX and can say it's the best bike I have or will ever own. They have really ironed out the issues you refer to and I love it.
     
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    I will eventually upgrade, but I just don't like the beak that they design into adventure bikes.
     
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    I will eventually upgrade, but I'm waiting for a design that I like. The beak that they put on adventure bikes does not appeal to me.
     
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    It's worth checking the cable pulls freely and returns promptly when you let the lever go.
    If that ok then it's just the early model gorilla clutch.
     
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    Alatamoc, Apr 14, 2020
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