Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

No left hand lever at the handlebars?

Sequential gearbox and paddle change. Google it.

how does the paddle change work and perform please?

Sequential gearbox and paddle change. Google it.

Ok, but stop saying sequential gearbox as if it's unusual on a motorbike.

how does the paddle change work and perform please?

Like a mountain bike, on the left grip it's thumb for upchanges and forefinger to change down. No need to drop the revs either.

There is also a traditional gear pedal, for which you do have to slacken the revs (never used it). It also rides as fully automatic. There are four gear modes to choose from when you switch on: Touring; Sport; Sport gear and Rain.

Ok, but stop saying sequential gearbox as if it's unusual on a motorbike.

Get her...

sounds like fun with smooth effortless gear changing

Ok, but stop saying sequential gearbox as if it's unusual on a motorbike.

I may have been using the wrong term. There is no clutch. It's a CVT-based system.

TBH' Google would have been be more enlightening than getting snippy with me.

I'm no mechanic. I just ride bikes...

I may have been using the wrong term. There is no clutch. It's a CVT-based system.

TBH' Google would have been be more enlightening than getting snippy with me.

I'm no mechanic. I just ride bikes...

I wasn't being snippy, least I didn't mean to be, sorry if I came across that way.
I'm gonna guess CVT stands for constatly variable transmission or something? So it'd be like there wasn't gears, just a smooth transition in the relation between engine revs and rear wheel speed?
I'd imagine that'd be quite strange? At first at least.

those auto boxes are going to get a lot more common I think. How is it to ride? like a scooter on 'roids?

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I wasn't being snippy, least I didn't mean to be, sorry if I came across that way.
I'm gonna guess CVT stands for constatly variable transmission or something? So it'd be like there wasn't gears, just a smooth transition in the relation between engine revs and rear wheel speed?
I'd imagine that'd be quite strange? At first at least.

Very strange at first. Hard to resist the temptation to rev a new bike at standstill, and reaching for a non-existent clutch lever for a while. Mostly I leave it in touring and only use the paddles for deceleration.

Having said that, it's very fast away from the lights in sport mode. No clutch -no let-up on the acceleration...

those auto boxes are going to get a lot more common I think. How is it to ride? like a scooter on 'roids?

Never ridden a scooter. Rides like a regular bike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEkSTpUoMw&feature=related

thanks

Big pic dump.
Some pics I've collected over the last few weeks..

http://www.bikeexif.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/yamaha-xs650.jpg

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Mostly from bubblevisor.blogspot.com.

some yummy looking bikes there. wish i could hear a few of them.

I was quite excited to see the new (ish) Cafe Racer programme on Discovery, but it's crap - it's about 20 minutes an episode without ads, they jump cut all over the place, half the bikes are not cafe racers by any stretch of the imagination (putting a seat hump on a naked sportsbike ffs) and a good 30% of the program is some fat bloke pontificating in a TV studio rather than footage of Tritons doing battle.

I was expecting Biker Build Off or American Chopper but with proper motorbikes.

Never ridden a scooter. Rides like a regular bike.

Can't loft the front with a deft, hank marvin twang on the clutch though I guess....

That said I'd like to try an Mx'er with one of those Rekluse auto clutches fitted.

There is also a traditional gear pedal, for which you do have to slacken the revs (never used it). It also rides as fully automatic. There are four gear modes to choose from when you switch on: Touring; Sport; Sport gear and Rain.

Think it wIll be difficult to adjust back to a normal clutch after a few months/years of using the traditional gear pedal with no clutch?

I'll try and get a test ride on this though, tendonitis in my left hand makes it hard to ride more than a few hours in town.

i think it would be easier than you imagine. remember how easy it is to go from driving a left hand hand drive car to a right hand drive car.

Thinking it would be more like indicators on the left stalk indicators on the right stalk in a car. Wouldn't do it more than a few times before it sunk in.

Saw you posting a lot of R100's, I've had an R80/7 for 8 years. Great bikes, mine live on the street so it's not in great external condition. Expensive bikes to run though.

expensive, why so?

Think it wIll be difficult to adjust back to a normal clutch after a few months/years of using the traditional gear pedal with no clutch?

Like I previously posted, I've never used the pedal shift, just the paddles.

I've never had a problem adjusting between automatic and manual cars (which I frequently do) or between left-hand or right-hand drive cars.

Beemer indicators are a lot more sensible than the usual ones I find. They always put the horn button in entirely the wrong place though.

Yeah - how come R's a expensive to run? You can do it all DIY with about 3 spanners and a socket, and they are more or less indestructible?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RofiRzMGW7I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDRgVAwSZo

Thanks. I enjoyed that.