Why do most bikes transmissions make you push the shifter down for 1st gear. Why can’t all your gears be be pulling up on the shift lever? Same with a lot of atvs if I remember right from my childhood
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You need to know definitively where 1st is. If you get all the way down, and there is no more, it has to be first. No big deal with new bikes with gear indicators, but old bikes with sloppy gear boxes it really helps.
Although…
I have had bikes where going from first through neutral to second felt like it was done by carrier pigeon.
I guess some folk start off in second too?
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