Hi fellow Berg riders,
I recently picked up a 2009 Fe570 which is fully converted to sm.
She has excel wheels and full Beringen 6 pots brake set up.
Got my plate yesterday and naturally i've been riding a while +-180km over 2 days.
But now I've encountered some issues
1. She pulls great in gears 1-3 and then 4-6 are quite strange (gear 4 doesn't have it as often as 5 and 6).
When I'm going in the higher rev range in those gears it sometimes feels like the power isn't delivered even tho my rpms are rising. It feels like a stuttering for only a brief 2 seconds.
Can anyone relate and so what causes it?
Later when i pulled away from a red light and reached 100kph in 6th gear it all off a sudden felt like I snapped my chain, loosing momentum all off a sudden and increase in rpm (snapped a chain while riding an xt660x and the feeling is quite the same).
I immediately pulled in the clutch and went up right in order to avoid a highside should my wheel block and so I drifted to the edge of the corner. When everything was under control I looked over at my chain and it was still on, I also had a feeling like the engine died when i pulled in the clutch, but when I twisted the throttle to check it she was still running.
The chain and sprockets are quite new +-300km (previous owner only rode for about 100+km with the new ones before he sold her to me).
What can cause this?
I also read somewhere that the 09's had an issue with sprocket bolts coming loose but this can't be my problem I think.
Edit: I did check the sprockets again and the marking signs on the front driveshaft sprocket (small one) don't match anymore, could this be a part of the issue?
2. When riding behind my dad and slowing down for a turn i suddenly heard one loud sound which I can only describe as 'Pop!!!' and then the engine died.
She did start back up right away though. It almost felt as if the popping sound came through the airfilter (how weird it may sound, but it was really up close in my face, figure of speech) What could this have been?
I know a single cilinder can stall easily when in low rpms but i've never heard this popping sound. The xt660x which i still ride occasionally is known to stall often and I've never heard anything close to this sound when stalling the xtx (usually stalls with clutch engaged) Also the xtx is near 40.000km.
3. When idling I can hear some rattling/ticking near the head, is it time to check valves? or is it the cam tensioner?
Sorry to bombard you guys with all these questions, but since I only recently got her it would destroy me if I would break her right away...
Kind regards from Belgium
I recently picked up a 2009 Fe570 which is fully converted to sm.
She has excel wheels and full Beringen 6 pots brake set up.
Got my plate yesterday and naturally i've been riding a while +-180km over 2 days.
But now I've encountered some issues
1. She pulls great in gears 1-3 and then 4-6 are quite strange (gear 4 doesn't have it as often as 5 and 6).
When I'm going in the higher rev range in those gears it sometimes feels like the power isn't delivered even tho my rpms are rising. It feels like a stuttering for only a brief 2 seconds.
Can anyone relate and so what causes it?
Later when i pulled away from a red light and reached 100kph in 6th gear it all off a sudden felt like I snapped my chain, loosing momentum all off a sudden and increase in rpm (snapped a chain while riding an xt660x and the feeling is quite the same).
I immediately pulled in the clutch and went up right in order to avoid a highside should my wheel block and so I drifted to the edge of the corner. When everything was under control I looked over at my chain and it was still on, I also had a feeling like the engine died when i pulled in the clutch, but when I twisted the throttle to check it she was still running.
The chain and sprockets are quite new +-300km (previous owner only rode for about 100+km with the new ones before he sold her to me).
What can cause this?
I also read somewhere that the 09's had an issue with sprocket bolts coming loose but this can't be my problem I think.
Edit: I did check the sprockets again and the marking signs on the front driveshaft sprocket (small one) don't match anymore, could this be a part of the issue?
2. When riding behind my dad and slowing down for a turn i suddenly heard one loud sound which I can only describe as 'Pop!!!' and then the engine died.
She did start back up right away though. It almost felt as if the popping sound came through the airfilter (how weird it may sound, but it was really up close in my face, figure of speech) What could this have been?
I know a single cilinder can stall easily when in low rpms but i've never heard this popping sound. The xt660x which i still ride occasionally is known to stall often and I've never heard anything close to this sound when stalling the xtx (usually stalls with clutch engaged) Also the xtx is near 40.000km.
3. When idling I can hear some rattling/ticking near the head, is it time to check valves? or is it the cam tensioner?
Sorry to bombard you guys with all these questions, but since I only recently got her it would destroy me if I would break her right away...
Kind regards from Belgium
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