Sticky gearshift

[kaliron5]

Hey guys,

Hope all is well. I have been riding for a month now and appropriately consider myself a beginner. I had the scariest thing happen to me the other day.

I was stopped at a traffic light and thought I had the bike in 1st gear. When the light changed, I started to let out the clutch and give throttle as I would any other time. The engine just roared and I was not going anywhere. I kicked down again and tried to take off but nothing happened. I tried up shifting and downshifting and nothing was happening. Finally, I kicked down on the gear shift hard and it popped back into first.

The scary part about it was that a very very very large truck was coming right behind me and he thought I was going to go once the ligh changed, but I counldnt. The truck came to a screatching halt about a foot away from me.

Whats the deal? Has this happened to anyone? Is my transmission shot or just sticky? Is there something I can do to fix it?

Thanks,