Help! Can't access 1st gear- others are hard and they slip

[xridedalightning]

Hey guys, I'm new to forums but a friend suggested it may help. I have a 1989 klr650, and today I had been riding in pretty hot weather and I'm not sure where my oil went but it was almost empty. I regularly check it, must only have been 4 or 5 days at most since I saw it was fine. However today about an hour into the ride I lose the ability to shift into first gear, I push down and it just comes back up. (this caused me to stop and look at my oil level) As I try to get to the nearest gas station to get oil it starts to get harder to shift between gears, same problem it won't catch I guess it a good way to describe it. Upshifting hasn't been a problem but downshifting is where the trouble is. Then I fill it with oil and let it cool down (a small amount of white vapors were escaping the oil filling hole). Riding back the problems remained and it would change gears on me, and only once did I hear a grinding. What should I do guys? This is all I have- no car :(

 

[High Lord Gomer]

Sounds like you may have done some damage to the shafts that the gears ride on.

Unfortunately, the only fix for that is to tear the whole thing apart and replace both shafts and all of the gears.

Not sure if your bike shares the same oil for the engine that it uses for the transmission but if it does, I would expect that the crank and valvetrain would be toast, too.