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Keep stompin' down buddy, it's the only way you'll find it!!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

That's how I find 5th.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

For 34 round slide carbs on an H2, I use the stock H2 manifolds, as and no insulators. Never had a problem doing it that way.

....now that I think about it, I had the inlet faces on the cylinders (H2) machined a few degrees so that the Carbs angle up slightly at the back, so no clearance issues at all. Bit of judicious work with the studs/washers, but you don't see that at 100mph!!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

I rode a Triumph once with a right hand shift, and I think it was down for up......never again, thank you! !

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

A few months after I bought the H2 a noticed that it wasn't hard to miss a shift in the heat of a street race. I thought about it and decided that it was silly to make the shifts that you needed to do cleanly and quickly the ones you had to lift with your foot, so I made a new shift lever to reverse it. I immediately loved it and have reversed the shifting of every other motorcycle I have had since then.

When learning golf, you're told that your left arm does most of the work of the swing, and the right arm just guides it a little. If I had it to do over I'd learn to swing "left handed".

When playing guitar with a pick as I do, most of the dexterity needed is with the left hand, fingering the strings on the frets. Again... if I had it to do over...

At least I got one out of three right back at the start!

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

All the Moto-GP guys use the down for up thing as you describe, Jim, (same reasons, plus ground-clearance), but I'm a bit of a fundamentalist and stubborn with it! I kick an Aussie football left-footed tho. - seems natural to me! Great gear change, H2's, who misses shifts? !

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

I think of it as down to lower RPM, up to raise RPM.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

I think of it as up for changes up and down for changes down.......... (apologies to the O.P. for the thread-jack! ! ) All good fun!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

Yes, I got that from your post above. I guess most people think of it that way, since the "powers that be" forced this standard on all of us.


I think he got his answer early on, so now the thread belongs to the bored.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.