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ludaChris
I just picked up my first bike this week, a new 2009 FZ6 from Colorado Powersports. I've been riding it around and have about 400 miles on it now.
I rode it down to Colorado Springs and back up to Broomfield over the weekend and on the way back up I noticed the engine was dying sometimes when I downshifted.
At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the downshift itself and possibly something I was doing wrong, so while I was coasting in the middle of nowhere I experimented with the timing of my shifts and clutch and couldn't reliably reproduce it. Then I was able to make it die three time in a row while coasting ~35-45mph in third gear I think; engine was at ~5-6k rpm and I would disengage the clutch and the engine went straight to zero, eased the clutch back in and the engine started going, released and repeated the process three times with the engine dying each time, but then I couldn't reproduce it again after that.
It just started happening on this one trip, and continued through the whole 2.5 hours it took me to get back up here; occasionally, possibly randomly dying when I downshifted (disengaged the clutch) in seemingly any gear or revs. Could it be a case of bad gas (I've put 3 or 4 tanks in it so far from various places, using Regular as the dealer recommended for the altitude), or is there something wrong with my first/new bike?
Thanks
I rode it down to Colorado Springs and back up to Broomfield over the weekend and on the way back up I noticed the engine was dying sometimes when I downshifted.
At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the downshift itself and possibly something I was doing wrong, so while I was coasting in the middle of nowhere I experimented with the timing of my shifts and clutch and couldn't reliably reproduce it. Then I was able to make it die three time in a row while coasting ~35-45mph in third gear I think; engine was at ~5-6k rpm and I would disengage the clutch and the engine went straight to zero, eased the clutch back in and the engine started going, released and repeated the process three times with the engine dying each time, but then I couldn't reproduce it again after that.
It just started happening on this one trip, and continued through the whole 2.5 hours it took me to get back up here; occasionally, possibly randomly dying when I downshifted (disengaged the clutch) in seemingly any gear or revs. Could it be a case of bad gas (I've put 3 or 4 tanks in it so far from various places, using Regular as the dealer recommended for the altitude), or is there something wrong with my first/new bike?
Thanks
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