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Kawasaki wrote:In my above post ^^^^

There was just a thing that you'd push down.. as messaged above, by the right peg.

The clutch is the lever on the leftside of the bars. You pull it in to disengage the tranny from the engine... so you can shift or stop and other handy things like that.

The thing you lift or push with your left foot is the shifter... the thing that does the gear changes in the tranny. Your right foot works the rear brake.

Sounds like you dirtbike had an auto-clutch?

Yeah, now im confused about sports bikes

Umm, is the clutch on the bars like a lever?

Umm, and if so, you push in the lever, probably pushing it towards the front tire I guess, press down which shifts I presume, then let the clutch back out, but do you hafto let the clutch out slow like a car?

Not trying to carve on ya or nothing, Dude, but a MSF class should be in your future before you go buy a bike. They will teach you what and how all this stuff works, the correct (read: safe) way.

But most bikes work like this...

On the bars you have the throttle(you know about this, I'm sure ) on the right side and the lever on that side is the front brake. You pull it to the grip to activate them. On the left side, you have the clutch lever. Same deal, you pull it in to the grip to disengage the clutch and disconnect the engine from the tranny.

Down below, by the left side footpeg, is the shifter for the tranny gears. One down is ussually first gear, then put your foot under it and lift up for the remaining gears. Neutral is between first and second and takes some practice to get familiar with. On the right side by the footpeg is the rear brake pedal. Push down on it to slow the rear wheel.

Hope this helps.....

K this is cool and all, accept for the Neutral in between 1st and second.

And thanks for taking your time to explain it, and yeah, I will be taking 2 safety courses, an MSF one, and theres a safety school guy that owns his own school that lives beside who said he would give me lessons.

Oh... its ok if you dont want to answer this...

But, so your bikes in park or whatever, you start it, pull in lever, press down to go into first, let go of clutch.. go go go whatever, pull in clutch, lift up twice to go threw neutral... release clutch..?

Kawasaki wrote:Oh... its ok if you dont want to answer this...

But, so your bikes in park or whatever, you start it, pull in lever, press down to go into first, let go of clutch.. go go go whatever, pull in clutch, lift up twice to go threw neutral... release clutch..?

Just like that, except the shift from first to second is just one movement. Neutral is inbetween the 2 gears and takes a kinda 1/2 shift to reach. Sounds harder than it is when you know how to do it.

ya it looks like i have to take the permit test then take the class and that gives you a liceness same as you guys. I guess ill just study get the permit and sign up for the class and then when ever i have the funds for the bike weather it be for or after my liceness, get it thanks guys

Lift up once to go through nuetral into 2nd. If you give it a firm upwards pull you won't go into nuetral usually, (I think everybody has accidently hit nuetral in their riding career) you'll go past nuetral and right into second gear. On my bike, if you're in first and you pull up on the shifter the full range of motion you'll go into 2nd. If I only go up on the shifter about halfway through the range of motion, that's when I hit nuetral.

I hope this helps explain it better and not confuses you more.

TheReaper wrote:Lift up once to go through nuetral into 2nd. If you give it a firm upwards pull you won't go into nuetral usually, (I think everybody has accidently hit nuetral in their riding career) you'll go past nuetral and right into second gear. On my bike, if you're in first and you pull up on the shifter the full range of motion you'll go into 2nd. If I only go up on the shifter about halfway through the range of motion, that's when I hit nuetral.

I hope this helps explain it better and not confuses you more.

Thanks bro, for explaining it in depth.

i didnt get it until someone explained to me that the shifter acts like a rachet...if that helps...it clicked immedialty when i was told that.