Broken clutch cable?

[Cantrell]

So today was a great day to practice my knee-to-knee control in the corners until I pulled in the clutch and it easily pulled to the grip without any tension. My guess is that the cable broke somewhere but whatever the problem is, the clutch no longer engages, the lever has absolutely no tension, and I had to get towed home.

Has anyone seen or ran into this problem before?

 

[Macbuell]

weird, when cable snaps the clutch is always engaged I thought...

 

[only1reds]

I did, but mine snapped at the clutch cable hand grip position. I also had to get towed home, bought the cable from HDick for $20-50, only to strip the initial cable at the primary cover (they're made of lead) so be very careful (in my opinion remove the primary cover completely off your bike and attach it there first and work your way up).

Had to argue with the manager, and with luck I was able to exchange the cable for a new one and had to do the entire process all over again, but from the primary on up to the clutch cable lever hand control.

 

[Thorivola]

That doesn't sound like your cable broke, it sounds like the cable released from the rotating clutch pulling mechanism thing. Have you taken off the clutch inspection cover? It'll be obvious if something doesn't look right. Reference the manual we have hosted on the sight, section 1.8 for clutch basic inspection.

On my Blast about 2.5 years ago I had the clutch lock-nut somehow get rotated inside the case and all the sudden my clutch wouldn't engage. I was very confused until I figured out the problem.

 

[Cantrell]

Come to find out, the primary cover mechanism actually broke inside of the primary somehow. Iron machine says that this has been a popular order in the recent past leading me to believe that others have had this problem as well.