03-13-2015, 01:55 PM
I wondered about the wisdom of buying my '14 instead of searching long and hard for a closeout '13.
Now I KNOW I did the right thing. Having had gear indicators on the last handfuls of bikes I've owned....I would NOT want to be without one. Simple to count up and down, right? Sure - when things are quiet. When there's traffic and you're thinking about six things at once...you don't need a seventh to clutter up your mind. You don't need to grenade your tranny by jamming it into 1 at too-high speeds, either.
Six speeds and an indicator...I done all-right.
Now I KNOW I did the right thing. Having had gear indicators on the last handfuls of bikes I've owned....I would NOT want to be without one. Simple to count up and down, right? Sure - when things are quiet. When there's traffic and you're thinking about six things at once...you don't need a seventh to clutter up your mind. You don't need to grenade your tranny by jamming it into 1 at too-high speeds, either.
Six speeds and an indicator...I done all-right.