Bumping out of 2nd

nm9
I understand your thinking, and almost posted similarly. but the more I thought about it I came to a different conclusion.
In order for wear to occur as you are thinking, on the fork/slider interface, there would have to be sufficient weight hanging off the stick to pull the internal shift levers, partly into neutral.
On the late style cover, this would take a lot of force.Just try to pull the stick into neutral wilst cruising down the road And since the clutch teeth are being held engaged by the engine torque, nothing would happen until the torque passed from drive to coast.Then its possible that the hand weight could kick it into neutral. With the roostercomb cover, I think its a non-issue
On the other hand,with the earlier cover, the detent is much less powerful.However, a fellow would have to be somewhat imperceptive, to not realize whats going on, as the stick would have to have a somewhat springy feel to it.
I also think this would be a 1/3 gear only issue, cause in those positions, arm weight is pulling the stick into neutral. In 2/4 arm weight would be pulling the slider deeper into gear.
And finally, its not very comfortable resting your hand on the stick in 1st and 3rd, And since a guy is never in 1st very long...... that leaves 3rd. I can see 3rd being affected. But once again, Im back to the springy stick.
All in all, I reckoned,it was bad practice, but forgivable.

On a different note, I moved my shifter waaay back, between the buckets, and uuup.The upper mounting bolt is actually above the hump. My upper arm hangs pretty much vertical, and my lower arm just above horizontal,with my hand on the ball. I fabbed up some new large diameter tube links.Cause I tool around with my hand on the ball too!

So what are your thoughts?