Ive found that rolling the bike forward/backward can help also.......

 

Just get a bike that downshifts by itself like mine! When I emergency brake my bike downshifts by itself it sounds like a machine gun!

 

I can't tell if I'm misunderstanding you, and I'm not going to get into another huge debate, haha - but you shouldn't be shifting from a stop... moreoever, you should be downshifting while coming to that stop and already be in first when you've made a complete stop. Always be in gear - you'll seriously never know when you might need to evacuate stage right.

Also, the CCT tensioner is a cheap fix and I would just do it now. Gonna cost you about $50 and in all honesty, there isn't a bad one to buy. So long as it's not made of plastic, anything is better than the hydraulic one that Honda installed... maybe even plastic!

 

Haha, that's called tire chatter! Pull the clutch in next time and it won't do that!

So what's up with it anyway? Bent shift fork or what?

 

cctl in the f4i is sping loaded, not hydraulic.
on the F4i it's not as easy to do as an F3.
dealer will likely charge you 2 hours labor for it.
i do it in 30 minutes.
don't down shift at a stop, over 1/2 the time at stop it won't go into first gear...you'll need to try and engage in second then go back to first or roll a bit.

 

Didn't know that! I'm glad to see they at least tried something else though. But from what I hear, they still fail pretty regularly, if not more than the F3's.

I still wouldn't pay someone to change it.

 

yea on the F3 is very fast to change it out but on the F4i is tucked and sits on the other side of the frame.

pita to get to.