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My wife being one of them. She knows how to ride and has her license, but in her words, i cant be bothered with all that gear changing.


I was thinking about it today as I was driving my car to work this morning (manual trans) and got into some heavy duty psycho freeway traffic (the kind where you have an on-ramp then right away an off-ramp, so you have people staying on the freeway, people getting on and people getting off the freeway all at the same time) and was thinking that I could not imagine that kind of situation with an automatic transmission. Then I started to think about how much I shift the bike in various situations. With an automatic tranny, you are completely at the mercy of what the tranny feels like doing. You can't upshift or downshift when you need it. That whole thought to me appears not only scary, but flat out dangerous.

Soren

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