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Buzz is on the money. Sounds like your clutch is spent! If it's adjusted too tightly to make up for its lack of grabbing power, it won't completely disengage and cause the shifting trouble you're seeing. If you've done it before, you could try dry-shifting into the troublesome sixth gear. This mean...

I think I would be looking at the clutch first, too. And it's easier to access than the tranny gears. Slipping points to clutch not gears, and so does trouble in all gears. Often a tranny will fail one gearset or shaft first, so any problems tend to show in certain gears and not others. How's the o...

I ride an '85 Kawasaki ZL900 with 16,000 miles. Recently, I've noticed a grinding noise in my transmission while in certain gears. I can especially hear it in fifth gear (six speed tranny). I was riding down the highway tonight, and couldn't shift into sixth gear at all...i was greeted with the same...