Recently going down the road it took more effort to shift up...i don't remember what gear....plenty of clean trans fluid..while sitting still with it running going thru the gears I have all the normal harley clunk except from neutral to 2nd there is a grind along with the clunk. It's obviously different. If I'm in 1st and miss neutral it will go into 2nd normally with no problems. ... I guess the transmission needs pulled to replace synchros??? ..but I am really not a transmission guy and would like a better understanding of what is going on...my next move and about how much am I looking at.

 

I am thinking clutch

 

I realized I should have put this in transmission section so I made a post over there.

 

Your trans doesn't have synchros, so don't pull it yet.
Two things you didn't mention- what is the year of your bike? There are differences in the shifter mechanisms.
Did you try performing a full clutch and cable adjustment?

 

Yeah I'm pretty dumb about transmissions. .. It's a 2003 wide glide. I didn't do anything to it yet..wasnt going to til I had an idea of what was happening. Didn't readjust clutch because I didn't think it needed it and also since it was just effecting one gear and not all equally.----im not saying I won't just why I didn't. I would love nothing more than to adjust the clutch and fix it.

 

+1 for clutch dragging