mommas thumper wrote on 08/28/17 at 04:47:57:

I have to assume they were talking about internal stuff and not the external shifter mech.

So to "fix" this and maybe discover it, they've had to split the cases.  You must have deep pockets.
Did they show you the damage?
I would be very skeptical of such a diagnosis.

It's very rare that the internals have ever been damaged or at least never reported.
A few of the early bikes had issues with the external shifter mech.

I've horsed my bike around pretty hard, and seen idiots come and go for twelve years , people stomping, literally stomping on the shifter, and nobody has Ever damaged the guts of the transmission.
Eegor bought a bike that had bearings and stuff messed up, but that was from the belt tension.  
I have no idea what was done to cause such, unless it's been dropped at speed and the shifter shoved Up,
I'd be in the shop, looking at the bent part and knowing that it is what was in my transmission.
I've Accidentally shifted into first when I shifted my weight at a light, and killed it. So, I'm not able to understand how it's possible to put a shift fork in a bind that will bend it.
How long was the bike in the shop before they told you it was a bent fork?

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How long was the bike in the shop before they told you it was a bent fork? [/quote]

the bike has been in the shop for over a week they checked all external linkage and where able to get it to hang up and determined it was internal.hope to get down there later today to look things over