Hello Everyone,
Relative newbie here - sorry! I've had a scan of previous threads but not sure any is exactly what I'm experiencing.
I acquired a '76 550 earlier in the year and spent some time "doing her up". She had at least 44k known miles on her at the time and I've put on another 500 since then. Our greatest journey together (!) was this bank holiday when I decided it would be a fun idea to ride down from Bath to Plymouth to surprise my mother. And I did.
No issues on the way down. However, being a bank holiday and being Devon there was a lot of stop-start traffic on the way back. I noticed the clutch was starting to do something funky: it seemed the biting point was becoming quite "far out" on the release (sorry if that is not the right jargon) and "snatchy". So, it would start to bite OK on gentle release but would reach a point when all of a sudden it would engage fully and the bike would lurch forward. Didn't matter how gentle or gradual the release, it would still snatch towards the end.
And then I realised it was doing it through all gear changes but was obviously more noticeable at a standstill i.e. changing from neutral to first.
I'm happy to go through all the standard diagnostics for clutch issues but mainly wondered whether this was a "classic symptom" of something specific. The only thing I have had chance to do so far (and this was road-side at the time) was twicker the distal cable adjuster to reduce the free-play a bit. Didn't make any difference to the issue.
Would be grateful for anyone's thoughts. Thank you,
Christian
