broken clutch plates?

[stainlesscycle]

found 2 broken friction plates when i went to investigate why my 200 wouldn't shift into 1st. i thought the scorpion was bad, but found pieces of clutch plate restricting movement. any idea what causes this? basket and hub looked fine/not grooved, and plates weren't worn below spec.

[dank]

could just as well have been poor quality building material. the manufacturer may have gotten a bad batch of the stuff, and when fatigued, it broke. im curious, where would you get a new clutch from? not just the plates, but maybe the basket also? and is there cross over? i may or may not have to replace parts in my clutch, so knowing were to get them would be fantastic.

[stainlesscycle]

i have bought used baskets and resurfaced the fingers. i have a spare basket or 2 to cover potential problems..

[GMP]

If I had to guess, I'd say its either from bad shock dampers, or more likely from the additional clearance between the plate tabs and fingers of the resurfaced baskets. Its easy to not think of the abuse this mechanical interface takes, that is until you own a dry clutch Ducati. Both wet and dry clutches function the same and are in a constant state of self destruction, but on the Ducati you are constantly reminded of the increasing wear and gap by the increasing rattle as it is not damped by the closed cover and oil bath. The larger the clearance, the more time the plates have to gain energy before they slam into the basket fingers. In ten years on three different GGs I never broke a clutch plate, but I never filed a basket either.

[stainlesscycle]

this wasn't on a filed basket..i'm thinking it was just worn friction plate fingers - i've been experimenting with stack height and have been slowly adding cr250 frictions into my stack (since i have a bunch, and they're dirt cheap).

i have a few dry clutch ducs, and know the destruction.. on a totally different tangent, the duc quiet clutch mod is very effective at eliminating the destructive clunk/clunk/clunk of the basket when in neutral. you still get the jingle/jangle when you pull the clutch in.. i have gotten many years outta baskets and clutches that i used to replace every 6-10k miles. i haven't replaced a clutch since i switched over to the mod.....

[dank]

ok let me get this straight, honda cr250 plates work in our clutches?