: why do manual motorcycle gear goes from 1>N>2>3>4>5>6 and not N>1>2>3>4>5>6
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The biggest thing to highlight really is how getting into neutral is a “half click”. So many people think about it, having never ridden, as having to shift up twice to get from first to second. On my bike, it’s actually a bit of a pain to get into neutral (which is good). Otherwise, you have what happened to me so many times on the bike I was learning on, which had a really easy neutral. Too many times I’d pull away in first, try to go to second, and then rev, and nearly bang the limiter and half fall over.
It’s funny how much your body anticipates the forces of accelerating, and you never notice it, until you lean half your body over the handlebars expecting the bike to pull away in second.
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