Terminology - clutch 'free play' and 'release mechanism'

[issey9090]

Hi

Slightly confused about the terminology -

Is clutch play the distance the lever is pulled in before clutch is in use i.e. the movement where its doing nothing?

Basically my clutch lever doesn't suit me at the moment - resulting in stalls and bad slow movement control - the bikes i used on my training felt much smoother.

The clutch on my bandit only engaged when let out quite far, almost to full, so i have used the adjusters at the lever and the top of the clutch box and it now seems to engage about half way let out, so much better. The problem now is i find the distance between the biting point and full engine engage is too small, and would like to make this larger... I think that makes sense-

At the moment:
<---------------------->----------------------------------------->
biting point.......fully engaged.................................lever out

Desired:
<----------------------------------------------->---------------->
biting point..............................fully engaged...........lever out

Is this adjusted using the release mechanism?

Thanks for the help

[G]

Not sure what you mean by 'release mechanism'.
Clutch free play usually means the amount the lever moves before it start to 'pull' - so basically the 'loose' bit where the lever can just waggle.

Not sure what you mean by 'release mechanism'. You might be able to get the point where the clutch slipping to be enlarged, but I suspect probably only maybe by fitting softer springs. External adjustments will pretty much move both points about the same (slight differences due to linear/circular movements.)
If you keep using it like it is, I suspect you will probably get used to the sensitivity required soon enough.

[issey9090]