Heck, I clutch and look for seventh gear sometimes, only to look down and see the green six light is already on!!!! Thank you cams and tuner!!!

 

Don't really need to know. keep the motor between 2 and 3 thousand rpm unless accelerating. I coast into a stop. and downshift all the way once I'm stopped. So knowing the number reallly doesn't matter.

 

I forget all the time. I would regularly try to shift into "6th gear" on my older 5 gear Road King.

Also, I downshift when I'm coming to a stop. I run through each of the gears and use the motor to help slow the bike down. I kinda figured most people did that, but now I'm wondering?

 

Just my though and opinion. Need to keep up with it. Could get you in trouble. I sometimes get off one too low for what I do but as much as I drive and always match the rpm to the gear I seldom fill a braking effect on a gear change which is what you get for getting too low to accelerate. I use what gear I am in to decelerate to a stop like a red light. I only usual drop down through the gears when I just need lower gears for the speed of traffic. Brakes are cheaper then clutches for me. I usually try to run above 1700 rpm. I can fill the cylinders fire much below that. Its level were I live.

 

To each, his own, but I don't want to be at 4 mph for a stoplight in 5th gear & hear the cage driver behind me lock up his brakes too late. In first or second I stand a chance of gettin' out of his way.........

 

Almost never know what gear I'm in (unless im stopped or ridin over 60)...the sound of the engine all I need

 

Don't wonder. You're doin it right. Like a post above....always gotta be prepared to move quickly.

 

drive by the tach all of the time rpm vs speed = what gear you are in

 

You'd think with all of the "Accessories" that are in the HUGE HD catalog that one of those highly educated college degree engineers from the MoCo might have thought out a way to sell us a "Gear Indicator Heads Up Display" ( sorry if you don't have a windsheild --- of course you could buy one of those too ) so we wouldn't have to think when we were riding .... I remember years ago a lot of the Jap Bikes had the "gear sequence" stamped into the engine case right next to the shifter ... that way all you had to do was lean way over ... maybe even stand on your head so you could see it ... then just before you plowed into whatever was ahead of you at least "knew" what gear you were in. Just my .02 cents worth.

 

you know:
The name of this post reminds me of a great song by Chicago...I'm just say-in "dose anyone really know what gear I'm in"

Sorry it's my ADHD