Weirdest thing I've ever heard. Please try and explain this better. What locks up? Are you trying to tell us the clutch lever won't move until you switch gears? Are you absolutely sure there are no wear notches in your clutch hub or clutch basket?
Lol sorry, I always think I'm explaining it well and I end up deleting a large portion of my post because I feel like I am bad at writing down what I mean.
If you are in gear and you push your bike without clutch the wheels are "locked up", you can force it to turn over but you are forcing the gears to go around. = LOCKED UP.
(Examples below)
Day 1
I open up garage, pull the bike and I notice it's in gear, pull in the clutch but it makes no difference.
I change to neutral and the bike rolls as it should, no need for clutch of course.
Day 2
I open up garage, pull the bike and notice it's in gear so I pull in the clutch to move the bike but it's locked up, as if the clutch isn't pulled in. I decide to move from GEAR 1 > GEAR 2 (still locked up) I then move to GEAR 3 and it frees up and has quite a lot of clutch drag but it's pushable.
I release the clutch lever as I put the choke on and pull it back in, bike is locked up again until I cycle through 2 gears BUT without cycling I can STILL start the bike in gear with a slight move forward but nothing huge.
It's not a big deal and it's very rideable as the clutch acts perfect when it's running, bite is really nice, starts in gear, coasts well and everything else but I just don't like how it was fine before I rebuilt it and now it's acting like this.
I had the clutch off today while taking a look at the gear change mechanism and I think everything looked good including spacers ect. If it was a missing spacer would the clutch still perform ok while it's in gear? And would it still work after the gear changes?
I know it's a super weird problem that is whats making me want to fix it and not just deal with it.