Originally Posted by
Cadaverdog
I sort of owe you an apology. The damage might have been self-inflicted. I failed to mark the shift lever or the transmission when I removed the shift lever from the transmission. When I reconnected it, I trusted the gear shift shaft to be in the correct position, but it wasn't. It was stuck all the way back, as if the bike was trying to up-shift. I must have tried to put it into first gear with the shift lever disconnected. In my defense, I got the advice to manually shift the bike using a 13 mm wrench from a different Spyder forum. The user manual has it in there too.