Heavy Clutch Lever on 2014 Triumph Thunderbird LT

My clutch is very hard to operate. After a couple of hours riding it gets quite painful. It's not that I'm weak, it just seems to aggravate the tendons in my hand.

So I went to the dealers and checked out several models there - to mine, and their surprise, some were easy, some were hard. When they looked up the parts, the service guy said that the clutches are "car type" clutches and that in his experience, working as a car mechanic, these had very variable spring rates. Quality control on them isn't great and they can be sourced from different suppliers.

I've done everything I can to free it up, cable is working freely and so is the the lever bushing, the problem is inside the engine.

Only other solutions I can see are either to get a longer actuation lever made up or perhaps a hydraulic conversion.

Has anyone suffered similar?

 

thanks for your reply, I'll have a chat with them and see if they can fix it.

Is it a big job?

 

Thanks for that