dduelin
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The part about engaging D when rolling is interesting. My DCTs would not go into gear if the bike was rolling more than maybe 1 mph. I have a sloped driveway and end up at the bottom still in N. How fast will your bike allow shifting into D?Ok. I have'nt changed oil yet and will do so later. However for the purpose of this discussion I decided to experiment. I wanted to pinpoint exactly the engagement point of the clutch when the bike is started from cold.
So I started the bike and it immediately fired up and remained at about a steady 15/1600 rpm as it always does. I am not normally given towards knocking it into gear at those revs but for the purpose of the experiment I gritted my teeth and did it. The engagement point while it is in its (15/1600) warmup revs is 2000rpm.
I then allowed the revs to drop to normal tickover of about 11/1200rpm and tried again. This time the clutch engagement point had also dropped to about 15/1600rpm. Accordingly the conclusion is that the engagement point when cold seems to be allowing for the fact that the engine revs are higher during warmup. I suppose that makes sense to me because otherwise the bike would take off during warm up if the engagement point was lower than 2000 rpm when drive engaged. I know one person who had such an issue with an S. Eventually a DCT reset alleviated that issue.
My normal procedure when cold is to let the bike freewheel down my sloped drive and engage D while it is rolling. That way there isn't as much of a thump engaging 1st gear. However the other day when I encountered the sluggish engagement I had used a different procedure and it was static when I engaged 1st.
One other aspect to consider is that there had also been a considerable increase in average ambient air temperature since I had last ridden the bike.
More later.......