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Thank you, Sibbo! That was beautiful. :')
That is a bike I would NEVER worry about finding saddlebags for!

I'd still need a tank bag. And I wish he'd stay on his own side of the road.

Did that bike really shift on the right?

Last attractive Ducati engine.

enigmaT120 wrote: Did that bike really shift on the right?

Yes, the early round case twins and, I think, all the singles shift on the right.

Nice sound!

I so admire the ability to mold metal into machines. For that matter, even cleaning metal like Melville does and turning old into new.

Very nice.

Zombie Master wrote:Last attractive Ducati engine.

I actually think the square case bevels are good looking too, just not nearly as good looking as the round case.

Garnet wrote:

enigmaT120 wrote: Did that bike really shift on the right?

Yes, the early round case twins and, I think, all the singles shift on the right.

Yep, I had a GT750 right shift, 1 up, 4 down (I think it was four) and it made perfect sense too. That was a bike I was I'd kept (don't we all say that! )

However, whenever I got back on the BM, it took a while to acclimatise to BMW normality.

SteveD wrote:Yes, the early round case twins and, I think, all the singles shift on the right.
Yep, I had a GT750 right shift, 1 up, 4 down (I think it was four) and it made perfect sense too. That was a bike I was I'd kept (don't we all say that! ) . . .

I loved that arrangement on my Brit bikes, There's something about that left brake and right shift with it's up for low and down for high shifting that just 'worked'. In part, when braking (left foot) and shifting down for the corner your weight is biased to the rear of the bike, which makes the upward shift motion favorable. Then when you're accelerating out of a corner you weight is biased forward (so you don't wheelie) and that makes the downward push on the shift lever seem very natural. My old Enfield/Indian 500cc thumper filt similarly good.

On the other hand a Trumph felt awkward and imprecise with it's up for high and down for low shifting motion.

But having declared my preference, a person does become adept whichever side you shift with and which direction you go for low.

Ken