Originally Posted by dojj

1st/2nd gear syncro hub will be shot, it's not gripping the gear to slow it down as the brass bits have worn out from too much quick shifting

you will probably have felt the box not going into 2nd as fast as you would like as the boxes won't slow down fast enough to make the quick changes needed to get a good pull away from the lights, i used to find that my box would take longer to change from 1st to 2nd than it took to use up 1st