Can't remember what bike it was I saw recently, Guzzi maybe in a show room, brand new, 1 mile on it, shifter + linkage felt like it had 30k of wear in it, flopping all over the shop, no obvious loose bolts, but at each pivot there was noticeable play. Bit shite!
All this talk of false neutrals, I went out and did the next bit of ghetto bike mechanic-ing.
Having loosened off the linkage rod, a few o-rings to take up the slack on the ball joins. Hidden under the rubber boots now reassembled.
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