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Stiff shift between 1st to 2nd gear

21K views 27 replies 14 participants last post by  Rudeboy  
I had this exact same issue not too long ago. I'm a new rider too but there's two things to check. One is the clutch freeplay, the other is your foot. Namely, make sure you're pushing it all the way up into second. If you accelerate with it partially in gear, it'll hold until you back off the throttle and then slip out to neutral cause it was never fully in gear.

Usually it drops out to N before you even get on the gas in my experience, but after tweaking the clutch cable and making sure I'm shifting fully (not lazy but all the way to the top) it should be fine. If it still drops to N even after you do both of these, definitely something else is wrong which you should get checked out.