Do you really know what gear your in?
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From: SoCal
I guess it depends on where I'm riding. In the city, I'm keeping a little better track by counting, but when I'm riding in the mountains with a lot hills and turns, then it's all about what the bike needs to keep it going...the sound is what I mostly go by. I don't want to be to focused on the RPM gauge because my thought is when you look down at the RPMs, then thats when you're not going to see that log, rock, pot-hole, whatever in the road. Stay alert, stay alive!
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From: Ohio
When I was a kid riding my quad I thought it would be cool if you had a display to let you know what gear you were in. Then years later I picked up a Honda Saber and it actually had a digital display to tell you which gear you were in. I found out how useless it was never wondered about having that again.
I would much rather have a tach.
I would much rather have a tach.
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I think that there is something built into the newer ones to keep them from going down to first gear automatically, especially on the run, I really do.
I pull up to a stop light, kick down all the way go to take off and sometimes find that I am in second, when I think that I am in first, seriously. Go to take off and am second and then have to kick down to first.
The remedy for that is to kick down again after it has set a minute and then it will be in first. Anybody had this happen?
I pull up to a stop light, kick down all the way go to take off and sometimes find that I am in second, when I think that I am in first, seriously. Go to take off and am second and then have to kick down to first.
The remedy for that is to kick down again after it has set a minute and then it will be in first. Anybody had this happen?
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From: Georgia
I think that there is something built into the newer ones to keep them from going down to first gear automatically, especially on the run, I really do.
I pull up to a stop light, kick down all the way go to take off and sometimes find that I am in second, when I think that I am in first, seriously. Go to take off and am second and then have to kick down to first.
The remedy for that is to kick down again after it has set a minute and then it will be in first. Anybody had this happen?
I pull up to a stop light, kick down all the way go to take off and sometimes find that I am in second, when I think that I am in first, seriously. Go to take off and am second and then have to kick down to first.
The remedy for that is to kick down again after it has set a minute and then it will be in first. Anybody had this happen?
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Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Monmouth, OR
Never really pay attention. I shift down until I hit first when I stop, upshift until it feels right when I'm cruising. Don't go to sixth too much on my ride to work and back.
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