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Originally Posted by Frank Warner
Yes - 'draging' the rear brake helps with slow speed stuff like turns .. you have a lot of power take it easy on the aplication of power.
Could be a drive shaft going .. needs someone to check it out.
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Thanks Frank for the feed back.
Looked at what may be causing the clunk and I am suprised at the play in the back wheel i.e. place the bike on the centre stand and put buike in gear the rear wheal can move by hand freely for a quite a way i.e. few inches forward and back before stopping on the drive gear at this point the same noise (clunk) is heard when free play is taken up.
If I use more power and using the back brake and it is not as noticable but does require slipping the clutch more. may be just a learning curve and a feature of the R1200GSA. The bike has only done 7K miles so all should be OK I may be being a little critical. I am used to the XT and being able to simply use the clutch and brake control and use bike momentum at idle revs with the bike in first gear to manover (parking garaging etc) I appriciate the bike is a great deal lighter.
I will be taking the bike back to the deler just to
A check another bike,
B get the rumble looked at,
I will keep you posted.
Thanks for the help and feedbak
Thanks again
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