Repeating Drills

Chris is still messing with his RGV’s wobbly clutch. But, for once, he only has himself to blame...

I THOUGHT I was such a clever clogs when I fitted my precision-made, lightweight The Tuning Works clutch basket to the RGV. The complete new basket, hub, pressure plate and friction/drive plate kit (they’re not steels, they’re hard-coated aluminium) needs to sacrifice an original basket for the primary gear. As the TTW clutch was a new, unproven product I thought rather than irreversibly destroy the perfectly useable clutch in the bike, I’d butcher a spare basket for its gear instead.

Clutch actuation is now that bit more slick as well as taking some rotating mass out of the motor. If you recall, I made the seemingly trivial mistake of fitting too many heavy-duty springs, and set about correcting that some months ago by dropping a few originals back in to soften the lever action. In the process of the swap I discovered nuts on the back of the clutch were fouling the kickstart idler gear. Bugger.