Good point, Madd. Example: I'm sitting comfortably on the bike, hands resting at a normal, comfortable, arm drop onto the bars. My imaginary fingers extend out and rest on the lever. Question? Where is the lever when my fingers are comfortably extended out? Is the lever above my knuckles, below my fingers? I want the lever positioned where my finger extension is in line with my wrist, meaning, straight out are my fingers to this seating angle to arm drop to finger extension, to lay the lever under the fingers, as if I extend the fingers out and there is the lever.
Lever being, my wrist did not pivot to reach for the lever either up or down was the wrist twist, but never moved from that comfort angle to the lever under the fingers in a most reachable way is extend fingers and the lever rests under the fingers = No wrist movement grabbing lever.
Foot shift adjustment: The good, the bad the ugly mess is I have a lever sitting up from horizontal is one spline tooth move. My boot is now shifting the trans cleaner. My downshifts are I have to really move off the peg to get the boot high enough to step down in gears.
This is somewhat wearing on the loads, but one mentions to take up any slack to the lever to the shifter and get ready to shift? That slight lever load is the same as touching the brakes. Load the lever and the clutch is not fully locked, but here is the spring load off the plates. Next is the shift fork. The shifter load is moving the drum if not out of its groove it sits in or that motion-pro star you change off the shift drum. This now loads the side of the fork tangs, the push arm groove, the spots on the fork that will rub under this load, and work the tang clearance down, rather than it floating in the groove of the star.
In a way, yes you can sneak up on the lever and shifter is hand and foot resting, but not loading them. Besides, this shifting business is not in a full concentration step by step move, but an unconscious kind of; you don't think of swallowing, don't think of breathing in and out, etc.
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