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    Blah Race shift on a Bucket - better?

    Ive just made a race shift for my cbr as my krr150 has one and its confusing to have them different ,

    Anyone else got race shift on their bucket?, does it give you an advantage?

    =Max

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodyracer View Post
    Ive just made a race shift for my cbr as my krr150 has one and its confusing to have them different ,

    Anyone else got race shift on their bucket?, does it give you an advantage?

    =Max
    I took Henks FXR out with race shift and it was a wee bit confusing for a road rider
    Means you can change up a gear in a corner if you need to, so yes I would say better. I would say most comes down to personal preference.
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    This seems to be the ongoing debate here. I can see the point in it, however peronally I'm not changing to race pattern until I give up road riding for good. The last thing I need is to come up to a corner on my road bike and change down when I need to change up...... or vice versa! Personal preferance I think, if you don't ride any other bikes that have road gearing, I would change, or maybe your brain is fast and adjusts quickly to things like that, mine isn't, I'm a creature of habit, and I would prefer when the shit hits the fan that my automatic reactions do the right thing.... down for down, up for up....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trudes View Post
    This seems to be the ongoing debate here. I can see the point in it, however peronally I'm not changing to race pattern until I give up road riding for good. The last thing I need is to come up to a corner on my road bike and change down when I need to change up...... or vice versa! Personal preferance I think, if you don't ride any other bikes that have road gearing, I would change, or maybe your brain is fast and adjusts quickly to things like that, mine isn't, I'm a creature of habit, and I would prefer when the shit hits the fan that my automatic reactions do the right thing.... down for down, up for up....
    Totally agree on the whole road bike thing I had a few interesting moments on the bike with race shift.
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    iv got race shift, never going back. im going to convert road bike when i get one

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    Better by far

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    Race all the way I have normal on the mighty drz and race on the bucket I can jump off one straight onto the other with ease
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    i can too but, ive made my footpegs higher on the cbr and the system for the gear lever is too hard to copy, so making a race shift is much easyer.

    ill post up some picts some of it soon, it's pretty bucket looking....lol

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    I've used both and use road,personal choice I've never seen much of an advantage either way
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    I'm not sure this has been covered before. I have no opinion, do I Warwick?
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    I'm not sure this has been covered before. I have no opinion, do I Warwick?
    Its not like you to ever have an opinion D!
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    Yep better, for Mt wellington in the anti clockwise direction anyway. Have standard shift on road and dirt bikes and have no trouble adjusting. If anything race feels a little more natural.

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    yer once i got the hang of race shift it feels even more natural....., my foot pegs have been raised about 7cm, so i cant wait to take it out on the track,

    Im putting a racing exhaust on it now, as ill need it for A-Grade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    I'm not sure this has been covered before. I have no opinion, do I Warwick?
    No idea, I can't even remember what happened before lunch let alone days/weeks/months ago
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Changed not long ago and love it. Race good for racing.

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