I was riding back from Reading today as I had a meeting there. When it came to the last stretch and the bus lane I thought I’d be clever by nailing it between Gatsos. I was clutchless shifting from 4th to 6th near the readline. The first time went fine. The second time when I switched into 5th it jumped out of gear and I lost power. I stamped down but I wasn’t getting any positive feedback from the gear lever so I coasted to the hard shoulder to have a look. It felt like the time the chain came off.Anyway as luck would have it a motorcycle recovery van saw me and pulled up infront of me in the hard shoulder. I managed to get the bike into neutral as after I let the clutch out the gearbox started engaging again. He jumped on and checked the clutch and that was fine so he said, “you ride off and I’ll follow, If I see you broken down again we’ll put it in the van and get you home safe.” (I assume I’d have had to pay for that). So for the rest of the way home the bike was fine other than me being paranoid. It sounds fine too.
Is this most likely a false neutral? The CB500 I learned on had done a lunar mileage and used to occasionally jump out of gear. I think if I’d released the clutch and tried again while it was still rolling I’d have been able to engage 4th and carried on.
The satnav shows that it jumped out of gear at 96mph.
I think my bike may also not like clutchless shifting at the red line.
Any advice?
