BikerCraig

Hi everyone
So after taking bits and pieces apart to clean/grease/oil I decided to do the foot peg assembly's, to keep it short, when I tried to remove the gear lever from the pivot point that also holds the LH foot peg to the hangar plate it would not budge. It still swivels on the pivot although it feels ever so slightly stiff. The bike has been down on the left side sometime in its life before my ownership so I was wondering if that had anything to do with it but the signs do not really show a hard enough drop to bend the whole pivot point and not the hangar plate. Tried pulling it off the pivot by hand, hitting the pivot through the lever with a hammer, lots of jiggling about ect...

Any ideas for the cause or a solution are greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks
Craig