Jeez Stan, shortcut, sans Google. You'd prolly kill yerself. 🤪

I love all this talk. Even though I need a translation!! Though I guessed what the pegs were!! When my mate and I used to go out on his he got a bit fed up of me "steering from the back" whenever we went past a bus queue with a tasty wimmins or...

As is correct. More often I see the bike in gear and the rider resting on the right foot. Most concerning is the amount of 'paddling', where the rider has no low speed control, or 'feet off the pegs till twenty..' :confused:

Well I opened that image in a new tab to try and enlarge it to see exactly what was on the door of the mausoleum. All I can make out is "Karran" on the top of the portico. So I guess I will have to go a googlin to see what this is all about...

Yup.. In bike years if nuffin else. ;)😁 😁

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! 😀😀😀😀