latheboy
Active Member
As the title says, I cannot get my bike below 2nd gear. When the bike is running or when it is not running. It will upshift ok to 5th gear, and will return down to 2nd. On downshifting, I must rock the bike to get it to fully shift to each gear. When I am at 2nd gear, I cannot get to neutral (big problem, no starting in gear!) or into first gear at all. The shift lever seems to travel far enough to be able to get to first or neutral, but the gears don't respond. I am thinking the shift star my be bend to piss. Like i said earlier, it doesn't seem to downshift from all the other gears as cleanly as it once did also. Anyone had this problem? I cant say I am easy on it, but today it nearly left me stranded. I did notice that it seemed to be harder thatn normal to find neutral a few times today. Then I stop for ice cream with my lil lady, and I couldn't get to neutral at all. So after a strawberry sundae, I had a friend give me a push and I bump started it in 2nd gear and rode home. Looks like I will soon be into looking and the shift mechanism.