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While W is away getting herself cut about, I realise that I m drinking a full bot of wine a night instead of sharing it with her. So tonight I decided to take myself in hand. So far I have consumed a roll-your-own Martini style cocktail where I...

I love the "old boy". Am I that much older than you at 70?🤣🤣 Where we are over here here are lots of forest tracks that I could go on if I had a dirt bike and my mad Landy neighbour is also a bikist. Who knows? It might happen one day!!

Catch up later. Oft to wuk urly.

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! Welcome to the asylum!, Now pop of to the "introduce yourself" part of the forum and remember.....we like...

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...

You int lived old boy Nivver too late. .

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. It's why I don't usually post stuff anymore.

Just found a piccy of one - the second "neutral" lever is the short one behind the kick starter.

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.

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.

W's sensodrive thing is sequential but you can go both down and up. This is stopping me getting on now!

And I know that if I had worked on the boxes I ought to know the answer!!

I has nevva driven or ridden a motubike but I worked on my mates even stripping down gearboxes. All this before I got a car. So, question, am I right in thinking that you don't go down the gears?

The bike I was taught on was a Jap with one down and four up (YB100?) The XT500 I rode illegally to the instructors house was the other way up like usual. I used to park it in the next street over so he didn't twig..

On my Hondas it’s reverse down then five up 🤪

Dottir just messaged me. W has had her op, ALL OK apparently. So big relief. I can now get on and do stuff!!! Have a good day all! 😀😀😀😀

It's on the left hand. Senior moment?

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...

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. The foot lever always returns to centre.

Morning all. Good news is W is being operated on as I type. 😀😀😀😀😀

Was following a motor bicyclist yesdi. Stoppin and startin frew traffic. Feet were moving about as if e were dancin. How does yer change gear? Does it slot in and have a spring back to neutral. Ow many gears? Answers. Eye need answers.