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Hello,

I bought “Kawasaki Vulcan 1987 1500 A” with no owner manual here is my question when I stop at red light or just stop on some reason I cannot go from second gear to the neutral, however when I just start everything seems to be fine I am going from neutral to first, second and etc. I think I am doing something wrong.

Thanks for any advice

You should never be in neutral on the street. Neutral is for pushing the bike and maybe for starting the engine... otherwise put it in 1st when you are stopped and use the clutch.

Oh, and take the MSF course or your local equivalent.

sirob wrote:Hello,

I bought “Kawasaki Vulcan 1987 1500 A” with no owner manual here is my question when I stop at red light or just stop on some reason I cannot go from second gear to the neutral, however when I just start everything seems to be fine I am going from neutral to first, second and etc. I think I am doing something wrong.

Thanks for any advice

Kawasaki's have a little thing for not getting in gear. Our Vulcan as well as a friend's Vulcan doesn't like getting into N either. Roll it fwd and back and try the gear shift again. It seems to get finicky, kinda like need to roll backwards when shifting a truck out of 4wd.

Mine has positive neutral finder. Works every time.

Usually you bang it down into first, then a halfpull up to get into neutral.

Shorts wrote: Kawasaki's have a little thing for not getting in gear. Our Vulcan as well as a friend's Vulcan doesn't like getting into N either. Roll it fwd and back and try the gear shift again. It seems to get finicky, kinda like need to roll backwards when shifting a truck out of 4wd.

Same with my honda. Just give it a bump and it should click right in, nothing to worry about.

I agree with dieziege though. It's good to always be in a gear where you have acceleration power, even sitting at a light, in case someone tries to run up your pipes .