Attached is the scanned shifting part from Owner's Manual.
In my case, I have a feeling that my bike don't have enough power to ride 25 mph in 4th, nor 30 mph in 5th gear. Looks like it will stall. I feel comfortable wen hitting 30 mph to shift up to 4th, and 40 mph to shift up to 5th gear.
Also, in my MSC they were teaching me when stopping shift down all the way to 1st. And keep in 1st if on crossing, waiting for green light. When I compared it to cars with manual transmission where you NEVER down shift to 1st when makes stop, he said it's ok with motorcycles.
Ok, I trust him, he's teacher, he supposed to know that stuff but none of my buddies are doing that. They would go to 2nd and then stop and switch to N, or downshift to N and stop.
I like this idea much better but I can't downshift to N from 2nd gear (except by accident
). It will always go to 1st, skip N. If I really, rally downshift sloooowly then maybe I would be able. Is this ok?
Related, when shift from 1st to 2nd it will skip N (sometimes with ugly grinding sound) and I'm assuming that's the way to do it. And if pull up the lever from the 1st really easy, small touch, it will shift to N. That's ok, right?
Tanks.