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TheReaper wrote:I had shifting problems as well at my MSF, I was on a Yamaha dual sport. It was fine while riding, but good luck finding neutral. It made it tough everytime I tried to start it. It's great they provide bikes for you, but it's unfortunate they don't get the TLC they could use.

Wow! That's probably the same bike I had. Mine was a dual sport, and I had to fiddle with it for eternity to get it into neutral. I actually started cheating and giving the "I'm in neutral" signal to the instructor when I was really in first.

Mag7C wrote:

TheReaper wrote:I had shifting problems as well at my MSF, I was on a Yamaha dual sport. It was fine while riding, but good luck finding neutral. It made it tough everytime I tried to start it. It's great they provide bikes for you, but it's unfortunate they don't get the TLC they could use.

Wow! That's probably the same bike I had. Mine was a dual sport, and I had to fiddle with it for eternity to get it into neutral. I actually started cheating and giving the "I'm in neutral" signal to the instructor when I was really in first.

How did you do that?

Our "I'm in neutral" signal was holding up our left hand.

On my Honda Rebel whenever I had to find neutral I had to hit the kill switch, find neutral, restart the bike and then give the signal.

I taught the CSC "Gearing Up" course, which is the equivalent to the MSF course in the States. Those poor bike took a LOT of abuse! The only ones that held up half decent were the old, old CB125T's but they were long past their prime. I was also responsible for maintaining the bikes after each course... that was a nightmare.

Anyway, congrats to nelamvr6 on passing the course!

Gummiente wrote:I taught the CSC "Gearing Up" course, which is the equivalent to the MSF course in the States. Those poor bike took a LOT of abuse! The only ones that held up half decent were the old, old CB125T's but they were long past their prime. I was also responsible for maintaining the bikes after each course... that was a nightmare.

Anyway, congrats to nelamvr6 on passing the course!

Thanks!

nelamvr6 wrote: How did you do that?

Our "I'm in neutral" signal was holding up our left hand.

Held up my right hand. He didn't seem to care. Maybe he assumed I didn't know right from left.

As the course went along I just stopped giving the signal and made eye contact. Our instructors weren't too much of a stickler on the range rules, however I seemed to have a decent class so maybe they were comfortable.