Reverse shift pattern

[Shifu]

I asked the same question quite some time ago and also got f-all useful response. I can drive various vehicles with and without auto boxes and a range of different gears, so re-training the brain to go down instead of up shouldn't be too hard. I did it in the old BSA days.

The thing that worries me is in the high concentration periods when operating outside your comfort zone, for example I've driven a lot of miles on the wrong side of the road in Europe and the USA and only when I was pushed to make it through a gap in traffic etc. have I ended up turning into oncoming traffic!

The race shift pattern is actually more logical, even for the road. The issue is switching between the two.

Yeah, I know what you mean. When we go to Europe we always hire the car and I have to be carefull for about twenty minutes of driving there before it feels natural. Same happens when we came back. But that's maybe because I've learned to drive there first before caming to Australia and brain "remmembers" that. Also the difference in the car is that there is more of the sequence: clutch/shift/ clutch/gas so there is sort of more time to catch it if you screw up. On the bike with a quckshifter there is only a split second move when the shift light comes on and you don't even think of it. I think I get on the Busa tomorrow and go for a ride slowly to see how it feels and whether I can get the slipper clutch to lock up

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Interested in any info from those who went reversing the gear changing pattern on their bikes. I finally given up resisting it on my track bike (a long left hander on a local track that needs upshift in the middle at full lean resulting in scrapping the boot) and to make it consistant also revered it on my Busa. Old automatic habits are hard to change and I only hope not to blow the gearbox Made myself a poster to hang in a garage and wrote REVERSE GEARS on the inside of my helmet visor but still nervous as in the moment it will be still easy to forget
How did you go?

Good luck.

Thanks mate. I know I'll need a lot of it