So, what's the secret?

 The guys we go racin' with are pretty good at tweaking bikes but are
very secretive. Usually I don't mind but they are making a big deal of
this one and I would like to figure it out just to stick it to em'. We
are all friends but.....

So on his Kawasaki 85 the clutch lever pulls in like it's buttered.. You
can pull it with your pinky finger it's so easy. He swears he didn't
change the clutch springs but won't say what he did. Any ideas, I just
gotta' know.. Any ideas?

Rowdy Mouse Racing, Time to whip the dragonback;)

 

probably got this little ten dollar device which allows one to squirt liquid
in a can like wd 40 or some Teflon and oil stuff from a gun store or a
powder fastener salesmen into the cable.

I seem to recall an article in some dirt bike magazine where they took a top
motocross rider and started taking things away like the clutch lever which I
think was the first thing they took away and it hardly slowed him down.

Fran

 
Install a hydraulic clutch :)

 vic20owner wrote:

 From the outside, everything looks stock from the lever down... Is that
something I would notice, or are you giving the "greenie" a slap down? ;)

Rowdy Mouse Racing, confused in CT..

 

Yes it is something you could notice.  there would be a master cylinder
incorporated into the lever perch and a hose instead of a cable.  There are
aftermarket kits for some bikes as they seem to have hydraulic clutches when
they go up for sale but didn't originally.  Though they don't seem to really
have the slave cylinder incorporated into the design like one that starts
out hydraulic.   I think he was just pointing out the sure fire way of
eliminating friction of a metal cable inside a tube of some sort.

I doubt it was a slap down as you were comparing cable to cable in the first
place.

Fran