My trusty CBR has suffered misfortune last week.
Taking it to work and out of the village, I couldn't shift up past three. I can just about shift between 1-N-2 but it's more clunky than you'd expect it to be.
I've just rung my local bike place and they've basically said they'd not look at it if it involved opening the engine which it's ultimately going to end up needing from what I can tell.
Their reasoning behind this is that you'd be looking at £150 in gaskets before you'd even looked at the parts to repair the problem and the labour to do so. They're recommending considering a replacement which would be around £1k all in he reckon'd and that's be less than he'd expect for a repair.
Now I don't know enough (read any) about bike gearboxes and how they sit inside the engine but I suppose given their compact size it's all quite integrated.
There's engines on eBay going for around the £350 mark but with only a month warranty and mileage all reasonably high, how do you know you won't just fit another lemon waiting for the same fate?!?!
:-(