Tire chirped

[tanto564]

I was cruising today and was coasting down a big hill. When I engaged my throttle my rear tire chirped and felt like it locked up for a second. Momentarily thought I was going over the bars. Anybody have any idea what this could have been? I can't make any sense of it.

[snaker]

Sounds like you had let off the throttle and coasted down enough to disengage the clutch.
At that point you are freewheeling and will coast as fast as the hill allows.
When you add throttle, you bring up engine rpm's enough to reengage the clutch
At that point it is the same as pulling in the clutch on a manual trans going downhill, downshifting to 1st, and letting out the clutch.
Nothing wrong (if that was the case), just the characteristics of the machine.

[yambw’s]

Last time I encountered this it was a soft seize.. could that be a possibility ?

[yambw’s]

Or as above! That’s a good point

[tanto564]

Sept 2, 2022 14:08:27 GMT -5 snaker said:

Sounds like you had let off the throttle and coasted down enough to disengage the clutch.
At that point you are freewheeling and will coast as fast as the hill allows.
When you add throttle, you bring up engine rpm's enough to reengage the clutch
At that point it is the same as pulling in the clutch on a manual trans going downhill, downshifting to 1st, and letting out the clutch.
Nothing wrong (if that was the case), just the characteristics of the machine.

Okay I figured it was something like this but I couldn't make sense of it since I have a centrifugal clutch not gears.

[yambw’s]

You’d need to slow down to a few mph for it to disengage or lock up the rear wheel

[tanto564]

Sept 2, 2022 14:42:51 GMT -5 yambw’s said:

You’d need to slow down to a few mph for it to disengage or lock up the rear wheel

Not sure how fast I was going when it happened but I know it was more than a few miles per hour