I was also thinking that with the ridiculously high geared 1st gear, that this is not as big of a problem as everyone makes it out to be. If I let my clutch out and don't have the RPM's up around 2,500 or 3,000, the bike dies! Add to that me holding the brake, and there is no way the bike is going anywhere. The engine is gonna die.

 

The accidents or near accidents I have heard of were not when someone already stopped and the clutch suddenly failed. They were when people were pulling into a garage, parking space, or an intersection. They would pull the clutch in to stop and it wouldn't disengage. They were caught off guard and probably panicked and/or didn't have time to think to hit the kill switch. Plus on the FI motors the ECM will increase the throttle to try and maintain idle speed making it harder to stop. Not saying it can't be stopped just more difficult and if your caught off guard and panic you don't always think how to react quick enough. I'm going to continue riding but will pull the clutch in early and have my thumb on the kill switch when slowing or getting ready to stop

 

thank you!

 

Heading out for a 4-day trip. will have to rely on putting my thumb on the kill switch at each intersection.

 

Called Colonial HD this morning after reading about the recall on here and checking Moco site and seeing my bike in included. They told me to bring it in tomorrow to get it taken care of. Now that is what I call service.

 

This is why the training/safety courses teach to not reach forward to twist the throttle back, but to start with a neutral wrist position with the throttle closed and twist down from there. That way if something happens that causes your body to be pulled back and you instinctively hold on, you'll actually close the throttle rather than open it.

 

I guess I'm confused by this. Many of the earlier posts indicate that moco won't even ship the recall kit until next week. How can your dealer do this recall tomorrow?

 

Don't know, guess I'll find out when I get there but the service guy was well familiar with the issue, so perhaps they got additional information for MoCo not reported here.

 

Don't know what they are going to do unless they just keep your bike until they receive the parts and directions on what needs to be done. My dealer and several others have posted that there dealers all said parts aren't being shipped until next week. I'm thinking they are confused and think you were talking about the clutch recall on the 14's from last October. You might want to call then back. I bet they aren't even aware of the new recall

 

You sure you made clear this was the new recall, and not 0157, right?

By the way, as a dealership service department employee, you shouldn't schedule the recall service until after the 15th, that's when the kits expect to ship. So your dealer will NOT have the correct recall kit until then or later.