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Motorcycle transmission questions - 1 down 4 up?
My dad left a '69 Honda CB350 with <2500 miles on it in a storage locker when he died. and it's found a home in my garage. Officially I have no interest in riding it (am not a motorcycle guy in case the wife is reading) but the more I tinker with it to get it running the more I'm thinking about riding it. Obviously the safe thing to do should I decide to ride it is to go take the MSF beginner course and get all geared up. I think I'm most likely to get a couple friends who ride to test it out for me. But I digress:
I understand that the bike has a sequential transmission but am puzzled by the shift order. From neutral, it appears 1 is "down" and 2,3,4,5 are "up". The sequential shift stack is 1-N-2-3-4-5. Does anybody understand the rational behind that?
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