Gear shifter sticking

[DrSnoosnoo]

Alreet?!

Yesterday I noticed my gear lever wasn't returning to the central position after a shift up or down, like it sticks a bit so needs a very slight bit of pressure and it will fall back to the neutral position.

I sprayed some greasy sprays at it and left it overnight thinking that will solve it. It didn't.

I'm gonna dismantle, clean and regrease everything tonight. Is this what I should do or could there be something else happening for me to look at?

Cheers
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I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Clean and lube everything first and go from there. Sounds like it could have just got a bit sticky from grit and general road filth.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

[gavcarter]

OMG YOUR BIKE IS DEDZ!
You have trashed the gear selector forks inside the engine and now they will in turn trash the drum, forcing you to get a replacement engine from ebay that will turn out to be in just as much state as your current one.
You will have great despair at having no bike, try drugs, just the once out of boredom and become addicted, you will sell the bike piece by piece for one last "hit" of heroin and end up with no bike, an arm full of tracks and no friends. You may or may not smell slightly of stale piss, depending on just how much heroin you take.
Your life is over.......

Or then again, you could always just thoroughly clean the linkages and re-grease.
If that doesn't help, don't panic just yet, Non-returning gear lever is usually a simple fix of a couple of new springs inside the engine, over time they become stretched and don't quite have the power left in them to lift the lever to return.

All the expensive bits should be fine as you have not reported troubles getting into or out of gear.

TL:DR

You clean and grease the linkages, become so ecstatic it actually worked, a little sex wee touched your undies

[DrSnoosnoo]

Good news everyone, just needed taking off, getting all the shit off the pivoting bolt thingy and regreasing.
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I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R