as you are finding the gear shifting being harder, you should check your clutch... i think your clutch needs to be tightened...

but you are telling that u face the problem in some particular gear... so i can't comment much on that... but yeah, do check your clutch settings.

The gear shifting up and down is smooth, its just the downshifting from any gear to first gear gives this probelm. There should not be any problem with the clutch setting as i have got it checked from SVC as well as from a local mech. The free play is also very small about half inch.

I usually require to downshift from a higher gear to first gear when there is some traffic or on red lights and before downshifting i make sure the bike is slow enough and the throttle is almost closed. This problem was not there in the beginning. When the mech have opened the complete clutch assembly i have myself checked to make sure that nothing is in a broken state.

I guess when we completely press the clutch, we should not have any problem while shifting gears from first to fifth or vice versa.
Is the above problem has anything to do with the engine oil because recently i got Power1 racing FS?

One more thing, the one way clutch has already been changed when the bike was one month old. So there should not be any problem from that side.

It's NORMAL with RTR's gearbox, as it's super notchy, it just bangs at every downshift with loud noice if you're gonna downshift without matching the revs, or in layman terms, downshift with blipping the throttle and releasing the clutch at every downshift, to optimise that engine braking.

You'll hear a rotating metal noice if you'll shift from higher gear to 1st at high speed like if you're doing 70kmph in 5th, and then you come down to 1st, without blipping the throttle, clutch pressed.
that noice is incresed when the clutch play is more than required.

If you're downshifting gear by gear, by releasing the clutch at every gear, thereby gradually matching the revs at evry gear, you wont hear that noice.

Half inch of play is not normal, it's more than required, set it to about 4mm-6mm.

Why you let the mechs open the whole clutch assembly, those shitheads know nothing.

Even if you're gonna shift with half clutch but with blipping effect, you'll have butter smooth downshifts.
Heck you can have butter smooth downshift if you're gonna downshift at the right sweet spot RPM without pressing the clutch, i do it several times.

OIL has nothing to do with it.

"renny - Heck you can have butter smooth downshift if you're gonna downshift at the right sweet spot RPM without pressing the clutch"


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Hi, Is this bike comfortable for someone physically well built with height close to (not exactly) 6ft? I mean do guys with such body look good riding RTR180 or its like a cow sitting on a bird!

Can i get the exact position of AFR screw(PIC if possible). And How to adjust it. Getting low mileage figures. Pls help guys.

One of my friends(6ft tall,90kg),is not quite comfortable with my Apache.
First take a test ride,and if you dont feel comfortable,then think for other options.

It's the small golden screw beside the "huge" idle rpm screw.

But why do you want to play with the mixture. It's not advisable to tinker with it unless you know what you are doing.
What mileage figure are you getting? If it's 35+, that's normal.

OT - Saw the RTR 180 ad on TV. Now the power figure is shown as 17.3ps...

Does your 6ft tall friend look good sitting on your bike?

Nops, dude. It shows 17.03 PS!!

buy the bike if u like it... don't buy it after judging if it looks good or bad on someone.

I saw it myself on VH1, yesterday evening

So now TVS has ads for the same product with two different specs on national tv God help the company

Guess it happens only in India

6th service done...

damn, they fixed the speedometer i wanted a new one...

changed the engine oil frm TVS tru4 to Castrol power1 (15w40),

lets see if it improves anything...

RTR power...

Air Petrol mixture is a sensitive thing if u r driving 180 forget about mileage orelse u have to sacrifice on power. But make sure if its a really rich mixture i mean u machine is consuming too much fuel than it will get heated up....just to verify open ur spark plug if its a dark black coating on ur plug ur mixture is rich

Hey just check out the RTR official site the power they are claiming is 17.03 which is supposed to be 17.30....i wonder if TVS is following bajas startegy to fool customers check out there check out the nearby showroom and have a test ride even i wonder why they are doing this will definitely spil the image of that bike

Lets just be It's a number... and just meant to be.

If you care about numbers, then the power to weight ratio of 124.08 bhp/ton simply does not add up. I did my calculations and I got 122.60 (considering 17.03ps) and 124.55 (considering 17.3 ps)...

@badbikerboy Do let us know how the oil performs? It's semi-synthetic right. Currently running on Castrol 4T Activ. The vibes are a little less around 4-4.5k and normal betwee 4.5k-5.8k . Above those it's butter smooth. Not much different for TVS TRU4... except a little cheaper