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False neutrals are no fun. I had one on the IOM on the left hander before bungalow - brown trousers isn’t even close! I’d guess 140 heading towards the verge, jumped on the shifter and got a gear - more luck than skill!
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Oof! - They're no fun on the downshifts when you're steaming into a corner, that's for sure. The 900SS is the first bike I've had for ages where they're an issue; it pissed me off at first but I more or less ride round it now. At least it only happens on the upshifts. The XR650R box is a bit of an agricultural pig but it doesn't miss gears. All the others are snickety-snick.
Jung
Yeah, back in the day, Honda seemed to have two kinds of gearbox, awesome or a bit vague. That era CBR6 seemed to fall into the latter category. The first time I ever rode one was a test ride from a shop out in west London. (Me and one of my little pals used to go to multiple branches of the same dealership blagging test rides, then go for a thrash.)
Anyway, I came screaming into a roundabout at max speed somewhere out on the A40, clutch in, banged down a load of gears, clutch out and threw hard it into the right. Proper brown trouser moment as I discovered it went into a false neutral!
It's not they're bad gearboxes, just that there's not much in the way of positive feedback that you've clicked another gear (like the delightful snick snick feeling of Suzuki.) My 900SS is similarly vague and I miss upshifts on that with some regularity.