My transmission broke ... in!!

[inte]

Now that I've got ~2,000 miles on the 950 I picked up last month I'd have to 2nd all of what Neduro said in his 1st impressions ... except for the "bottoming out wheeling off a bridge/culvert thing..." . Haven't quite tested it like that yet...

I've put a lot of commuting miles & a few dirt miles on the thing & all my comparisons have to be related to the 640 adv - the power/weight ratio of the 950 seems to make it feel deceptively light in most all conditions. Pretty amazing. From the get-go the bike seemed to have a more "solid" or "finished" feel to it. I noticed this especially in the gearbox - it just seemed to shift more positive with fewer missed shifts or false neutrals. I would occaisionally have trouble getting the 640 into 1st at red lights (my LC4 620 was all but impossible to get into neutral or neutral-1st at a dead stop) - the 950 just slips in.

Though the bike shifted solid, there was the standard "clunk" going into gear - yesterday that just disappeared! Another 15 miles of commuting today seems to have confirmed it ... at around 2000 miles or so the transmission broke in I guess (that or I'm getting used to it?) - shifts are nearly silent most of the time now.

oh... and the "clack" issue I was having at startup after laying the bike down hasn't happened for days now. I haven't done any "ectomies", so I guess it just cleared itself up... no complaints here

[d37rider]

Mines like butter!!