09-24-2023, 08:16 AM
(09-24-2023, 07:42 AM)VLJ_imp Wrote: I can't see ever getting a DCT if a manual is offered, unless it's on something like a Gold Wing, but that's just me. I enjoy shifting. That's a big part of the satisfaction for me, that mechanical feeling...operating the vehicle. In terms of a DCT helping me with my foot situation, it's the wrong foot. I'd need one of those thumb-switch rear brakes, since it's my right foot that's the problem, assuming I could get a boot on in the first place.
There was absolutely zero chance that I would accept an automatic in the MX-5. Maybe in a 911 GT3, if I'm chasing lap times, but if it's simply for fun I want a manual every time, and even more so on a motorcycle. To me, motorcycling was always a sport, not just a leisurely sightseeing activity. An automatic is almost anathema to the motorcycling experience, even if it has paddle shifters or whatever the "manual" option is with the DCT.
I don't know why I just thought of it, but something about this topic made me think of the one other bike that interested me of late, which is that green and silver Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello. That thing is gorgeous, and I've never owned an Italian bike. That would have been a cool first Italian for me.
Nachodaddy, it's crazy that you mention that, about your Miata. My red 2020 MX-5 got rear-ended at a stoplight, twice. The second time was literally thirty seconds after leaving the body shop, after getting it repaired following the first episode. I had just pulled out of their shop, onto the street. A hundred yards later I'm sitting at a stop light...bam!
"You gotta be sh**ting me..." I thought, in utter disbelief.
The woman who hit me was nearly apoplectic with apologies, but still, two in a row like that? It's an eyeballs-searing bright red car, in broad daylight, and the sun was high in the sky. The sun wasn't in her eyes. How does someone miss a bright red car with its brakelights illuminated like that?
And yet it happened twice in one month. Jeez.
That's why I now have the white 2023 instead of that red 2020.
Maybe red set her off subconsciously...like a bull with a cape.
I know, I know...bulls are color-blind. Don't ruin the comment!