06-10-2021, 12:06 AM
(06-09-2021, 01:04 AM)Haggard Rider_imp Wrote: I ride my bike purely for pleasure, not because I have to. And for me, changing gear (with any associated cock-ups) is part of that pleasure.
I've had an NC750 DCT but I ended up just using it in manual - I was getting no pleasure from using the DCT box. I'm in no way denying its capability or usefulness just that for me it detracts from the pleasure of riding at motorbike.
Slip and assist clutches (I still down blip, because it adds to my enjoyment), low RPM assist clutches are the limit of the assistance I would want.
We'll get enough electrickery on the forthcoming EVs 2 and 4 wheeled. I'll stick with what I've got thanks.
I understand that sentiment, although I also ride my bike purely for pleasure. After 56 continuous years of nearly daily riding, shifting no longer thrills me like it used to, hence my purchase of an NC750X DCT.
Every once in awhile I enjoy the perfectly timed up or down shift, but most of the time shifting is just needless work, particularly in traffic or coming up to or leaving stop lights and stop signs. Once going on freeways or back roads there is actually very little shifting involved anyway., an upshift here, a down shift there. For me a motorcycle is mostly an automatic anyway, except for the aforementioned stops which require lots of shifting when stopping and taking off. On one great 38 mile country curvy loops I ride, there are 6 stop signs, which require 10 shifts each (going from 1st to 6th then back to 1st each time) so 60 shifts, and 4 ninety degree turns following long runs that require 6 shifts (going from 6th to 3rd and back to 6th) each or 24 more shifts, for a total of 84 shifts. None of which are particularly thrilling. Besides those shifts, I doubt if I shift 10 times in the rest of the 38 miles.
Will be interesting to see if the DCT actually adds to or detracts from my motorcycle enjoyment.
At any rate I still have my CB 1100 if I feel like physically shifting.