Sticky gear lever.
I have a standard K7 model.
My gear lever is doing weird things - sometimes, when the engine's hot and the bike's stationary, it will hardly go into neutral.
It usually happens like this - I am approaching a set of lights, engine-breaking & front-breaking all the way down to 1st gear (as one does), come to a stop, right foot down, clutch in, go to pop it up into neutral ... and it feels like the gear lever is stuck fast - it just won't budge. So I sit there in first gear, trying to get it into neutral but it just won't go. Eventually the lights change, off I go in first ... and it pops smoothly up (and down) through the gears as soon as the bike is moving again.
Note that this stickyness doesn't happen every time. Sometimes, it just goes straight up into neutral, no problems. Other times it gets stuck, then I know it's not going to budge.
This started happening a few days ago.
Any ideas?
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