Stuck in neutral

[lewismug]

Mirrors are a really handy thing to use while at a stop light.  You can usually tell if someone is coming up on you way too fast.  As long as you're looking in your mirrors every few seconds, you should be able to see things like that.

[Teek]

WE have some loooong lights, I put it in neutral to save the ol' carpal tunnel. Yes, mirrors are put to good use, and if there is a car in front and one behind, there's not much time to react if car behind gets hit anyway.

IF the bike has been on a long run, a couple hours of canyons and high revs, it often doesn't want to go into neutral, it can't even seem to find it and doesn't want to hit 1st either. So I roll it fwd or back a few inches whichever is easier, and maybe give the engine a little rev and touch of clutch if that doesn't work, then it goes into neutral (or 1st, whichever I want). If all fails, which io rare, I'll start off in second.   

[pandy]

I'm with Teek...I know it's safer to keep the bike in gear, but my wrists die during city driving.   

As for the difficulty shifting....my first love, my Baby G, used to get more and more difficult to shift the dirtier his oil got. Heh. My SVs is the same way...just not as bad (and my LLT doesn't help, either). 

[prozach007]

definetly keep the oil changed with good oil, yes a sequential gear box is quirky, but did anyone ask or think to ask how old the clutch is, has it been changed, is the clutch cable in proper adjustment, is the gear selector spring still in good shape? Before someone gets flamed for oil let's get all the details