how did i reverse the gears???

[RAPIDROLLIN]

had minor blip other day and had to lay bike down other day , only damage was to gear lever , it snapped off so ordered another , fitted it and now the gearing seems to be 1up and 5 down, strange as it was 1 down 5 up before i started, how have i done this??

[benny hedges]

lol you put the lever on the shaft upside down.
it should be pointing downwards, not up

sorry to hear of your misfortune...
i love this quote though --->

had to lay bike down

read, "i fell off"

[RAPIDROLLIN]

ha if i fell off id be needing more than a gear lever

[Enzo_Skyline]

I had thought of reversing the shift on mine after a friend told me it was more "natural" Is it easy to do then?

[benny hedges]

yeh or you can just fit a pitbike gearchange lever & do away with the linkage.

i wouldnt say it feels more natural.... feels quite odd tbh.
some refer to it as racing shift - dunno why

[Enzo_Skyline]

Might give it a whirl,just too see what i think

[RAPIDROLLIN]

very easy to reverse the gears , just move the gear linkage to about quater to the hour, if ya know what i mean,
, and cheers benny all sorted now

[Stratman]

yeh or you can just fit a pitbike gearchange lever & do away with the linkage.

i wouldnt say it feels more natural.... feels quite odd tbh.
some refer to it as racing shift - dunno why

Its racing because on the track at extreme left hand lean angles there isn't room to get your foot under the lever to change up, so it is reversed to get around the problem.

[tony.mon]

some refer to it as racing shift - dunno why

Its racing because on the track at extreme left hand lean angles there isn't room to get your foot under the lever to change up, so it is reversed to get around the problem.

Doh! That'll mean I can throw away the bit of string I tied round the lever and connected to the chinbar of my helmet so I could change up just by tilting my head backwards.....Although it passed scrutineering ok...

[benny hedges]

Doh! That'll mean I can throw away the bit of string I tied round the lever and connected to the chinbar of my helmet so I could change up just by tilting my head backwards.....Although it passed scrutineering ok...

in 09, on the mot tester's wall there was a tester's magazine article on a bike brought in for test....

it was a gs125 suzi... the throttle had broken so the guy had ingeniously attached the throttle cable to the rear brake pedal so if you pressed the pedal the bike would accelerate.
press it harder and it would brake (while revving the head off the engine lol.

it had obviously been like that for a while as the inner cable had worn a groove through the frame paint...

it failed btw

if i can find the pic on my pc i'll ad it - it's brilliant!

[tony.mon]

Apologies in advance for the thread hijack, but...

Many years ago I had a little cafe racer, which had a push/pull throttle like the Storm's.
I fitted twin Amal carbs, which only needed the pull side, it used a spring return.

Being cheap, I used a ball type cable nipple I had, instead of buying a drum one, and sure enough after a couple of months it pulled through.
I refitted it but whenever I wanted a big handful it slipped out again.
So as a "get-you-home" bodge I put it into the push side, and sort of left it there, got quite used to it after a while.

Stayed like that for about 2 months, as I recall....Stopped me mates from wanting a go, though, so all good.

[jimbob]

years ago had an nsr250 with a reverse "race" gear linkage.. soon got used to it n never had a problem.. uptill me mate got his shiny new 1100 blackbird n let me have a go.. tall first gear this.. select second.. FECK..... luckily barring sore nads.. no damage done..