So the story goes like this:
I complained about the clutch being "weak" in the sense that I felt like there was some disconnection between the throttle opening and the power going to the wheels. It was a noticeable delay where sometimes the bike would skip / hop / jump, whatever you want to call it, when I twist the throttle, especially at lower revs and during deceleration.
I wrote about this in the V85 Merged Threadfest
HERE.
So now, after a couple of months, with the impact of the pandemic gradually decreasing, it was time for me to send the bike for some open heart surgery, and here are the findings:
According to the mechanics at my dealership, they said these markings are "uneven and abnormal", and it seems as though the clutch plate is not being pushed properly therefore the contact is improper or misaligned.
And this makes me wonder if there was a bad batch of pressure plates or clutches in general that were installed on some V85s, or could this just be an individual thing, especially since I've seen a slight increase in people complaining about the trans / clutch...
Also, does the flywheel and clutch plate look bad? I don't know how some things should or should not look like. I mean visually to anyone, even those that have no mechanical inclination whatsoever, this looks wrong, but mechanically, would it perform bad just because it looks bad?
