bigpoppa
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my left hand never gets tired in city riding with a quickshifter, still no solution to pornhub tho
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Why are you like this? Always sniping and harping.
I've been riding for over 4 decades. Go get a life.
My first 3 cars were manual. It was fun, but I don’t miss it.
I'm driving a stick and would surely miss it.
I remember a saying painted across a car at the drags one day "I'd rather eat worms than drive an automatic"
first automatic in almost 15 years of driving, don't miss it.
I don't drive in the GTA (very often). Being stuck in traffic everyday would take the fun out of a manual tranny pretty quick.
My tractor at work now is an automatic. Got it brand new 8-10 weeks ago.
10 or 20 years ago I’d have been horribly embarrassed to be caught driving an automatic tractor. I prided myself on being able to jam an 18 speed with the best of them.
Now? Meh. Nothing to prove to anyone anymore, and the fist time I went around a corner when a light turned green while still holding my coffee in my right hand, it kind of endeared itself to me.
10 or 20 years ago I’d have been horribly embarrassed to be caught driving an automatic tractor. I prided myself on being able to jam an 18 speed with the best of them.
Now? Meh. Nothing to prove to anyone anymore, and the fist time I went around a corner when a light turned green while still holding my coffee in my right hand, it kind of endeared itself to me.
I was thinking the same. But I was wrong.
JTR
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I wish it still existed in pickup trucks. To the point that I actually get mad when I hear an ad say "no charge automatic", like yeah dick, you just take away the manual option and added the auto to the base price of the truck.
Manual transmissions are such a tiny percentage of vehicles sold now that I’m pretty sure we’re at the point where it would end up being a premium up-charge item now versus the other way around like it used to be.
Honestly, automatics have come such a long way in the last 10 years that they are out performing manuals anymore in both performance and functionality. I don’t really know that I would want a standard transmission in a pick up truck anymore.
Automatics are just starting to take over the class 8 category, but they’re still effectively standard transmissions, they’re just automated shifting. Lots of new drivers are coming out of schools now with no clue how to shift a non synchronized class 8 tranny anymore, and anyone who’s got manual transmission experience in a car/pickup soon finds out it doesn’t translate to a big truck - unsynchronized vs synchronized.
Honestly, automatics have come such a long way in the last 10 years that they are out performing manuals anymore in both performance and functionality. I don’t really know that I would want a standard transmission in a pick up truck anymore.
Automatics are just starting to take over the class 8 category, but they’re still effectively standard transmissions, they’re just automated shifting. Lots of new drivers are coming out of schools now with no clue how to shift a non synchronized class 8 tranny anymore, and anyone who’s got manual transmission experience in a car/pickup soon finds out it doesn’t translate to a big truck - unsynchronized vs synchronized.
I was having this chat with the owner of a logistics company.
Apparently all the young chaps are getting licensed on automatic then showing up at their first job expecting that shiny new rig with the automatic. In reality they are getting the older tried and true ones with the manual gear box and drawing a complete blank. He said he was in the yard one time and saw a new driver staring at his phone in the cab. When he asked why he hadn’t left the yard to go do a run and why he was on his phone the driver replied “watching YouTube to learn how to use the gear shifter”.
Yep, it’s happened at our place too when they bring in a rent-a-driver to replace someone. They’ve had to send a few home as they have no idea what they’re doing. And it’s not something you can self-learn in a few hours. Quickest I ever saw someone *roughly* pickup how to shift a big truck non synchronized tranny was a few hours…with me coaching them.
Learning on your own, if you have a truck at your disposal and don’t mind grinding a lot, a few days of practicing before you’d be ready for any sort of road type driving….and even then all it takes is a small hill up or down to completely change all the required shift timings, something that would set back a self learner back to square one.
It really is an art.
pfbmgd
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Weren't you the one sniping at me in another threat . Now you are whining . After 4 daces of riding . I Figured you of all people be for more safety features on bikes .
pfbmgd
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Many schools teach on automatics . Many schools do a piss poor job of training . Not to mention people posting routes for testing . Plus going out of the GTA to get liscensed .
Relax
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This. Someone on one of my Facebook groups crashed his R3 doing emergency braking practice in a parking lot. The ABS failed on one attempt and locked up the front wheel.
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