I was riding to work the other day and was downshifting to come to a stop but couldn't downshift past 3rd????
So when the light goes green I started off in 3rd gear and stayed there until I got to work. I was afraid to go to into 4th or 5th for fear I would get stuck in one of those gears. It was hard enough to start from 3rd.
At work I have a look and find that the heat shield on the left exhaust pipe had broken a couple of welds and come loose and got jammed between the pipe and shift lever preventing it from shifting.


Anyone have this problem before? If so is there an easy fix or is re-welding the only answer?