Pick up a stress ball or a squeeze ball and hold your squeeze, do this multiple times to increase your grip strength, it's amazing how much you can increase your grip strength over a short period of time with no need to even mess around with changing levers or anything on your bike. (not for everyone of course!)
File down burred clutch basket, yz250f springs, lubed cable, and moose easy pull lever have made my licence plated wr450f a dream to ride. Almost as light as my enduro bikes hydraulic clutch with a Midwest lever. Well, for the first half of the pull in any case 😅
I recently ripped off the middle finger of my clutch hand on a log splitter. My 85 Superglide clutch is pretty stiff any way so I was thinking of cutting radial slots in the diaphragm spring to make it easier to.pull. Your video gives me hope it just might work.
I tried the add on style lever thing. Broke the first ride. Nope, i just keep mine stock now. DRZ400S. Replace first clutch at 20,000 miles. Still going with 2nd clutch, now at 53,000 miles.
1) If no medical reason for a lighter clutch then just buy a cheap set of hand calipers or a tennis ball and get squeezing. Improving your grip strength has benefits in many areas. 2) Lubricate your clutch cable with Graphite powder: make a cone of tape around the top end of the disconnected cable and partly fill with graphite powder. Move cable up and down to facilitate entry of lubricant. Keep doing so for a long time so graphite gets all the way to the cable's end. This should help lower the cable's friction and because it's dry won't attract dust or dry out.
Good question. I think most people use the pointer, assuming the clutch is light enough to not need more fingers on the lever. Haven't actually heard of anyone using the middle finger...
My '18 klr has such a sloppy clutch, constantly adjusting cable tension, but can't ever find nice precision (my klx is sweet tho!).. for me, other than moving levers etc, nothing would improve it's feel/touch
why is the lever so far from the bar generally? bringing it 10 or 15mm closer would make the power needed to press it much smaller. Brake lever comes with adjustment, but clutch doesn't, why is that?
