did i adjust the clutch correctly ??

[grego]

hi all

was riding the bike yesterday and wanted to go around a slow moving car in front of me. i was doing about 35 mph. i rolled on the gas. i could hear the rpms go up but i didn't go any faster. thought to myself ok its the clutch. when i got home i looked at the clutch cable. it was tight and there wasn't any play on the clutch lever. thought to myself ok always riding the clutch it needs to be adjusted. note i have put 50 miles on the bike since i got it a few weeks ago so still learning.
i looked at the service manual and figured out that there should be a little play in the lever. ok adjustment looks easy. at the lever loosened the big round lock nut and turned the cable in as much as it would go by hand. went to the other end of the cable. when i got there the lock nut was almost to the end of the cable and there was a lot of thread behind the adjusting nut.
i turned the adjusting nut until the cable went slack. tightened the lock nut and did the same at the handle bar. i have about a 1/2 inch before the cable starts pulling in the clutch. not the clutch grabs at about half the travel of the lever verses at the top of the lever. i question that when started the cable at the clutch had all that thread after the adjusting nut and now all the thread is on the other side of the lock nut. if its wrong where did i go wrong so i can fix it.

have a great biking day

grego