Evening all... I got my 1299 serviced yesterday and the clutch is different. They have changed the oil as I can see its a different colour in the reservoir. The biting point is much further out than it used to be. From threads on here i've read that if the clutch was further in, it might be air in the lines, but what about further out? The biting point is really quite close to fully released. Any thoughts?
There needs to be a couple of mm of free play in the lever before it starts to act on the pressure plate. If there isn’t it can cause the release bearing to fail and the clutch to slip. If you have that free play, then there is no harm in having a late biting point, in fact it will lift the pressure plate more, so reduce any tendency for drag.
The bite point should be that far out. As Old Rider said, there should be a small pull distance on the lever followed by the start of disengagement. Yours had air in it. It will probably slowly revert to its old feel as air gets in again. There are lots of posts on here about air getting into 1299 clutch circuits...
Every 1000 miles? Ha! I should be so lucky! (I had to stop and bleed my clutch just after I left you during our rideout to Lampeter!)
I really ought to replace the fluid in my 999 clutch hydraulics but I’m reluctant to as I’ve never had to bleed it and I don’t want to fix something that ain’t broke and might turn into a bubbly can of worms
If it’s like mine, Razz will have bled at the mc end not the other, bastard of a job of a fluid replacement. Bit of rag, 8mm spanner and 30 secs and it’s done.
Would that be seven years of ownership including riding the thing? Seriously though, my 748R suffered, my 1098S suffered and my 1299S suffers from this problem. I do a fair few miles; my 1299S has done 12k now. @bradders is right. It only takes a couple of minutes to do if there’s a bleed nipple on the master cylinder. It’s a nuisance and nothing more otherwise I would have splashed the cash and bought a decent MC.
I know that was tongue in cheek, yes it's riden, 38000 on the clock, although that's not much since 1998. Steve
I bought a new RSV4 a few years back. Gearbox was really smooth. Took it in for its first sevice which was basically an oil and filter change and I watched and waited while they did it. Nothing was touched or adjusted but the gearbox became clunky and the clutch nowhere near as smooth in the way home. All I could think of was that the running in oil was working better, thinner/thicker ?
