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    So hang on a minute here. You've ridden before, you've bought a Harley and now your experiencing compression lock on a motorcycle that can't go fast enough to pull the skin off a rice pudding.
    Then you come here to ask how to stop this embarrassing thing from happening.
    THIS IS A PISS TAKE YOU LOT.
    OP, do you have a full motorcycle licence?
    is your Harley a 500cc model?
    Do you know that if you simply don't change down before your bikes engine has slowed enough that you won't lock up the rear wheel with compression lock?
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    piss take
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Works well on a multi cylinder bike ... but the big twins (plenty of engine braking) just like you to just button off the throttle ... untill you need to change down. Much easier on the drive train too ...
    Fuck the drive train mate tis fun sliding into tight corners under.. cough cough.. engine braking,so much so ive resisted the urge to replace the old TLs primitive slipper with one outta a GSXR.
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    Harley riders are oarsum

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    Maybe this was him, at .40.
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    'change down gears without locking up the back wheel at speed'

    At speed? give an idea of what you consider 'speed' is? because changing down at any speed can be done without locking the rear wheel. Engine note is a key sound, coupled with experience and an intimate knowledge of your bike.

    If you weight the gear selector with a slight pull on the clutch lever, the bike will change down when the revs allow it, but a large percentage of Harley riders like the 'over do throttle blip' technique when slowing down.

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    It's so much easier to blip the throttle on a cruiser, you do most of your braking with the rear brake anyway

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    Quote Originally Posted by awayatc View Post
    joined today

    first post....

    piss take
    It can't be ... Harley riders are always on the recieving end of a piss take ... aren't they .. ??

    I wonder if he waves .. ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    ... ive resisted the urge to replace the old TLs primitive slipper with one outta a GSXR.
    It must be the only original bit still on the bike ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    It must be the only original bit still on the bike ...
    Thats to help with the wording on the trademe ad....
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    Thats to help with the wording on the trademe ad....
    I must spread it around ... apparently ... ... later ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by iYRe View Post

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    Every rider should watch it at some point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    Just use the brakes to slow down. Then change down when you get within the rev range for the gear you are dropping to.

    Failing that ... buy a small Harley ...
    Not sure about Harley/cruiser's where this is concerned, but on the Sports bike I just slightly load the gear selector then just touch the clutch lever and voila!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner View Post
    "This unnecessary thing I'm doing is causing me trouble - what can I do to keep doing this unnecessary thing that I don't like doing?"

    Harley riders.
    Well at least he's man enough to ask up for help.
    To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trufflebutter View Post
    Not sure about Harley/cruiser's where this is concerned, but on the Sports bike I just slightly load the gear selector then just touch the clutch lever and voila!
    Who the hell uses the clutch to shift.
    To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.

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