I've owned the bike off the showroom, Honda '01 F4i, it has 22,000 miles. NO warning light, rpm drop, or skip in electrical power. All gears are fine except second, if I take it easy in first second gear will skip hard at about 8500 rpm(full throttle). If I rip it hard in first it will do it at about 10800 in second. It almost fills like I slipped on fluid or the chain is jumping(chain is new and with-en ideal travel). No other gears do it. Slip on exhaust, K&N Intake, and sprockets.
Any ideas before I take it to a shop?
AJ

 

Did you replace your sprockets with your chain as well? That is what it sounds like to me is a rear sprocket rounding off.

 

The rear sprocket was changed with chain, the front about 5,000 miles back. I wouldn't think it is a sprocket issue because of the consistency. It never does it in 1st or third plus full on.
AJ

 

Hmmm, the description is kinda vague. Is it a clutch slippage? Could it be the tranny? does it ever miss a shift or come out of gear? Cam chain adjustment?

I know second gear is common to bend a shift fork on. My buddy thrashed his gsxr 1100 and did that to it.

It's kinda hard to say with how the problem is described. I would take it to a shop and have em check it out.

Good luck.

Steven

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PFR Motorsports &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've owned the bike off the showroom, Honda '01 F4i, it has 22,000 miles. NO warning light, rpm drop, or skip in electrical power. All gears are fine except second, if I take it easy in first second gear will skip hard at about 8500 rpm(full throttle). If I rip it hard in first it will do it at about 10800 in second. It almost fills like I slipped on fluid or the chain is jumping(chain is new and with-en ideal travel). No other gears do it. Slip on exhaust, K&N Intake, and sprockets.
Any ideas before I take it to a shop?
AJ</TD></TR></TABLE>

I would expect if it was the gear itself was damaged it would do it down the bottom end of the rev range. Before I took it to the shop I would drop the oil and replace with fresh. It wont be the clutch IMO as the clutch would show up elsewhere as well. When you say skip it sounds as if the selectors may be worn so the gear is not selecting properly. Is it jumping into neutral, can you hear anything?

If the chain/sprockets are good I would be wary about screwing it around too much.

 

No I can't hear anything. I am going to replace the oil today and see if that does anything, never hurts anyway.
The rpm's don't jump or free rev, it's as if the bike dies right at 8500 or higher if I take 1st all the way to redline, and then pulls out of it. It almost fells like when you are riding in the rain and go full throttle at high rpm's, you get that nice slipping action, but you free rev then. I've never really been to hard on the clutch, ex. double clutching.
Thanks for any ideas guys and gals,
AJ