Copiapo, Chile. HELP! HELP! HELP!

[Zarou]

I left my V-Strom near Laguna Santa Rosa (something about 150km from Copiapo) in mountains with broken clutch after 2 days waiting for help. Now I need to evacuate it back to Copiapo and repair.
If anyone knows any repair shops who can do that please help! It´s urgent!
Any other advices are welcome!

Roman

[andrewmclagan]

tell me if im wrong... but just ride it without a clutch. not the most fun u can have but totally possible. done it many times.

[Wrong Way]

If a gear engages, just drive it in that gear. I'm assuming it's just the cable? you can even change gears without your clutch. However, it is probably best just to leave it in secound or third - so you can stop and start with out stalling. I've heard stories of people driving for 11 days in secound gear on a klr650 with nominal damage to the bike(i think his name was Markhauf)

good luck.

Regards,
Wrong way aka Troy

[AndyT]

There are basically two modes that a clutch can fail in. Either always engaged or always disengaged. If it is engaged, you can do what the previous posters said, start the engine in neutral, roll the bike maybe 5 mph, pop it in first and away you go, you can shift by backing off the throttle slightly to unload the gears and shift. If it fails so that it is disengaged, you may be able to shim the springs to increase their pressure, and limp onward using light throttle, but this takes quite a bit of disaasembly. Either way, this is probably too late for the OP. Good luck, let us know how it works out.

[markharf]

"I've heard stories of people driving for 11 days in secound gear on a klr650 with nominal damage to the bike(i think his name was Markhauf)"

Heh heh. Funny that I don't remember this at all....but I did break a clutch cable right near where the OP got stuck (Paso San Francisco), which led to some difficulties for a few hundred miles. Somewhat remote up there.

Hope it all worked out for the OP. I don't know about shops, but the Dakar ought to be coming through in just a bit, so almost anything might be possible. Although prices do get somewhat elevated in Copiapo during the race.

Mark

[Zarou]

Thanks guys! It's really too late but nice to have a response.
The clutch was always disengaged and as future investigation showed it were disk, springs and separator (some were dead, some just old). It was absolutely impossible to move at that place without the clutch operating normally because of that deep shit beneath (mix of sand and small gravel). If I'm Terminator may be then...
However I evacuated the bike on the next day (Gino Bianchi helped, if you know him. He participated in Dakar 2010) and now I'm waiting for spares from Santiago.
Copiapó appears to be not cheap (with no reason, I think) regardless if Dakar goes on or not.

Here you can see the place
Photo :: 47-santarosa 18

[Calvin]

It was Sjoerd Bakker who drove home to Canada from Mexico in 2nd gear!

[Wrong Way]

You are correct. it was Sjoerd