Hi Guys, lately I've been facing a problem on my 2 and a half year old P200. The bike sputters at lower rpms while climbing up the rpm. Lets say I change to 3rd gear and the bike is pulling from 3k which is when the bike sputters like mad as if its gasping for air, as soon as the revs start increasing, at around 4k the sputtering disappears. As a result I also loose out on low end torque. Now the obvious pointers were :-

1. The AirFilter - Which was cleaned , and so was the air filter box whatever was possible from the lil gap.

2. Spark plugs are 6k kms old. Was cleaned, gap checked and put back.

3. I spent around 3 hours testing A/F mixtures to see if this could be the issue. In vain. Then I thought maybe I got it wrong, so told the PBK mech to re-tune, nope, no improvement whatsoever.

4. My tappets were checked and reset.

5. Tank was cleaned.

Although cruising is not a problem and I did finish a 200km trip on friday this is proving to be bad in the city.

Now the mech did point me out to something new. He said, it could be that my Clutch plates are worn out. Now my question is, has anybody experienced sputtering when the clutch plates are worn out? Any correlation? My clutch plates ARE worn out, but I wana know if there is actually any co-relation b/w the two.

Secondly, what else could it be?