NHTSA Complaint #11533759 — 2022 CFMOTO CF700

This motorcycle is equipped with cruise control. At highway speeds in 6th gear, a design issue with the gear position sensor causes the indicated gear to rapidly switch between 6th gear and 1st gear. This has two effects: 1. Cruise control disengages 2. The engine shuts off and will not start again until the motorcycle is fully shut off (key turned to the off position and back on) This reaction to the gear indicator reading results in the motorcycle abruptly engine braking at speeds up to 80 mph and an inability to restart the engine until stopped on the side of the road. There have been several times where this has happened to me where the motorcycle abruptly decelerates from 70-80 mph to below 60 mph in the span of seconds, causing following vehicles to have to slam on their brakes. If there was someone behind who was distracted, they would surely hit me as engine braking does not activate the brake lights. This is a well known issue with this motorcycle and almost every 700clx has this issue. The only fix is through a warranty repair in which the entire shifter mechanism is removed and replaced with redesigned parts. This is not an issue with wear or broken parts, as the bikes do this straight from the factory almost 100% of the time. If more evidence is required for a recall, you can look at the cfmoto 700clx owners Facebook group where almost everyone reports this issue.