| My thoughts ... I think it's more to do with the dry clutch gents - wet clutches seem to go through fairly easily but need more revs to go through with the dry clutch.
Also, big twins will stall easily when cold (as you've found out) under low load in low revs ... I nearly dropped my VTR1000 (my first big twin) from exactly the same thing. I was just lucky I was being cautious already and could get my foot off the peg quick enough. Incidentally, I nearly dropped the 996 the day I picked it up from stalling in the service station.
I ALWAYS warm the bike up before riding off - the neighbours might not like it but they aren't going to pay for your replacement rockers\cams etc. And I have 54mm carbon Sil Motor's fitted! Non-Duke riders get the irrits waiting around for you when you go out for a ride but again, they can all chip in to the 'replace TP's rockers' fund if they want me to not do it. When Neil from Sigma pulled mine apart for the Full Monty\Grunter I had to replace 8 rockers and have a cam lobe polished!!! NOT CHEAP!!!  |