Lever on the right side of the engine is foot controlled. Usually it is 1 down and 5 up but depends on how many gears. My bike had 6. You use the clutch lever on the right handle bar as you would in a car.
British bikes usually had the gear lever operated by the right foot. This changed in the 1970's to the left foot due to most of the rest of world using this arrangement. Changing up to a higher gear could be by moving the foot upwards or downwards depending on the manufacturer.
It's on the left hand. Senior moment?
The bike I was taught on was a Jap with one down and four up (YB100?)On my Hondas itβs reverse down then five up
Probably the rider was in neutral and holding the bike on the footbrake when static. Then change to the other foot to put it in gear before moving off.
You need to go down the gears sequentially. Normally. I say normally because I had a 1959 Royal Enfield Constellation when I were a yoof, it had a second lever on the gear box and whichever gear I was in, pressing the second lever put it in neutral.
Yeah I got my left and right mixed from memory. I haven't ridden since 2017 and my memory isn't too good at present.
Having a mother who was a doc who spent her time as she put it "cross matching blood by the bucketful" and telling us stories about a bikist coming in in one ambulance and his leg in another, she made it quite clear that I would never be able to get a bike.
Hiya noo member! You must have been following the forum for a while before launching into a first post like this on this particular thread!
