Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

If it's a stick shift then generally that's how it works, yes, although I know cars which work the other way round. Usually where the car started off with a Fireblade 893cc engine, and then got upgraded to a 919cc, where the gear shift works the other way round for some inscrutable reason only known to Mr. Honda.

However, the Fury doesn't have a stick shift - it's got mechanical paddles, in the form of the shiny thing behind the steering wheel:

That's connected directly to the gear selector shaft via a bellcrank:

So you could pull and push on one side, but generally you just pull on the appropriate side. And the question is - which side?