Rimutaka Hill new sign- Motorcycle high risk route

[haydes55]

but I am sure if you never took them out of first or second gear while learning they would feel reasonably tame too.

Or the exact opposite! In first and second gear at 100km/h a bike would be very twitchy trying to maintain speed, reacting very quickly. A learner would struggle to cope with a bike revving its tits off. By comparison, cruising in the midrange torque is simple.

[MrKiwi]

Unless it is a sign with the speed posted on it, I don't notice them. Even then...

[caspernz]

Reckon. It's fucking near 3rd gear territory on a clear run these days.

Haha, yeah I reckon, I used 2nd most of the way...