daft clutch question

[GeoBloke]

Monday I came back from a long weekend in France where the weather was crap but the roads and food were great. There's no good way north from Poole so you're pretty much forced to take the A350, a route that's not so bad, even pretty, if you're not in a hurry but blooy tedious if you just want to get home. It must have the record for roundabouts in Britain and it winds through every little podunk village possible. End result is that you're constantly shifting up and down for 2 hours.
So, after an hour and half of this I noticed some clutch rattle, especially in the lower gears every time I began to shift up and accelerate from one of the many slow areas. This got progressively worse. However, after I crosed the M4 and got on the A429 where one can ride at a steady speed for longer, t seemed to clear up.
My daft question is: can the clutch plate got hot through sustained use and produce this knocking noise?

views and opinions of the garage guru's on this forum welcomed and appreciated.

[Xander]

I am definitely no guru , but in theory it is possible to overheat your clutch. I had a rental car a few years back that did the exact same thing (dawoo or how ever you spell it) . There is also the possibility that it is your oil, being a wet clutch, when was the last time you changed it and is it stuff that can handle heat, i.e heaver grade? just my 0.002 cents (decreased value for decreased value of info ) Good luck with it.
BTW thank for the GPS advice, and glad the drugs worked!

[mal]

The clutch on my 94@ rattles when cold which is the opposite of yours, if the clutch is now alright i would ignore it as it had probably overheated with constant stop start driving.

[GeoBloke]

Thank you, Gentlemen. Thought it may have been oil related at first but it was just changed 3 months(2500 miles) ago. Checked the level when I got home and it seemed alright. Think you're right about the overheated clutch. I don't think I rode for more than 2 minutes in just one gear all the way from Poole to Chippenham. Constantly changing up or down for roundabouts, 30mph zones, slow lorries, road works, traffic lights, you name it .

thanks again for the reassurance.

[Simon]

when using the dommie off road the clutch over heats. The first time it happened i thought it was going to snap the cable as i had it pulled in fully but still the bike was pulling forward! Eugen then told me that its normal enough.

[BobA]

Cheap solution...buy some earplugs!


Bob