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Old 12-05-09, 07:34 PM   #1
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Default No gears - stuck with no drive.

What a ****er!

I'm enjoying the sunshine after not riding for 3 weeks and pulling up at the motorway intersection I find I cannot select any gears... grrr...

After bending the Gear Shifter and not having any luck, I get towed home in shame and hit the Haynes manual...

Anyone have any clue as to the £ damage to change a gearbox or possibly just the selector drum & forks (if i'm lucky)?
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Old 12-05-09, 09:21 PM   #2
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Default Re: Aaargh!!! No gears!!!

For a start is the lever nice and free? If it's not returned from selecting one gear then all you are doing is reselecting the same one.
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Old 12-05-09, 09:27 PM   #3
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Default Re: Aaargh!!! No gears!!!

yup, what he said. happened to me not long ago and it was just grit under the washer on the gearlevel/hanger rod thingy bit.
Doing it by hand i could feel it not disengage gear until i pulled it down just a touch, so i stripped the hanger and peg off the frame and cleaned it all up and re lubed it. Happy days.
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Old 12-05-09, 09:34 PM   #4
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For a start is the lever nice and free? If it's not returned from selecting one gear then all you are doing is reselecting the same one.
Nope, not free at all...

No Clicking, no Free-Play, no Nothing... just Bastar*d stuck...
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Haha - NO!

just pulling into a round-a-bout and found on trying to accelerate into it - I had no 'go'... Just stuck in-between gears...
So it was in a false neutral and stuck there? Engine just revving freely?
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So it was in a false neutral and stuck there? Engine just revving freely?
Yep, No change when playing with the clutch, shifting gears, letting it cool down etc... nothing.
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Default Re: Aaargh!!! No gears!!!

Teardown time. With luck it will be something loose, snapped or worn in the external shift mechanism.

As I understand there must be a small area of neutral in between gears, for the box to be in between gears and stuck there I can't think how this would happen internally unless something was seriously amiss like a really badly bent selector fork.

Have you managed to get any form of movement in the 'box since? Or is it still stuck in a neutral?
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