Install a 6-speed trans on a 2013?

[The Gecko_imp]

Surely I'm not the only one who prefers 5 speed.
I think with 6 speed your changing gear way to much for very little gain if any.

I'm fairly certain you are, actually.

I'm fairly certain you are, actually.
There's lots of us especially Ford transit van owners with 6 gears, to many gear changes. A lot of 6 speeders miss gears out to save pointless changes, eg go from 4th to 6th, 3rd to 5th you get the drift.
The problem with bikes is you can't do this so unless your just sitting on a highway in sixth for hours and hours you have to keep going up and down the box and it gets tiresome. Also if you need overtaking power quickly you have to go down two gears at times instead of one.
I don't like sitting on motorways so the journeys I make in the UK are best suited to 5 speeds.

Would be interesting to look at the detailed gear diagrams. My feeling is that the first 5 of the 6 are .equal. (or very close to the) the 5-speed gears. This means you can ride the 6-speed exactly like a 5-speed by just never go to the 6. But I may be wrong.

Wouldn’t bother /= prefer.

Given both options, same exact bike in every way- AND having rode both to feel the difference- would you still choose the 5?


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It’s a good question, Dubs. Given when I ride distances I like winding roads, I’ve no real need for 6 gears. When I do have to take a freeway, I’d probably appreciate the extra gear. But, if I had a chance to trade mine for a 6-gear model (unlikely, as I don’t think there are any in Australia) I wouldn’t take it unless the deal was just too good to pass up.

Of course, but this is because another bike brings other problems, and you know the problems (or lake of them) of your bike. The question was different : what if you could - ceteris paribus - switch to 6-speed. A theoretical question of course