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Manual (SM) or Elecitric Semi-Auto (SE) shifting?

Manual (SM) or Elecitric Semi-Auto (SE) shifting?

  • My Spyder is manual shifting - Clutch lever on handlebars, motorcycle style.

    Votes: 77 57.0%
  • My Spyder is Semi-Automatic (SE) and I shift with my index finger and thumb.

    Votes: 58 43.0%

  • Total voters
    135
Groundeffect, anybody who tells you that an SE isn't fun to shift isn't doing it right; (and yes, I've squeezed lots of clutches, too.)
 
'009 SM5. My dealer told me had a '10 Blue RT A&C SE ordered for me. We'll have to see how much he's willing to offer me for my '09
 
'08 SM5. Love the clutch. Like my cars manual transmission too.

Rode the SE5 just around a cones course at a Demo Ryde. Just couldn't get over the feeling it was "driving" me instead of the other way around.

Can see the benefit though. Just about wore out my left hand and wrist driving through Hampton Beach traffic at the height of the summer. Left hand hasn't been quite the same since. Still, I just like the connection one feels to the motor with a clutch. Would buy the same if it ever came to it.
 
09 SE5. It works really well and was very easy to get used to. Now I'm spoiled but I still want a handbrake. What a mistake on BRP's planning! I'll solve that one in 2010 somehow.
 
it is the same thing - to each his own

09 SE5. Sometimes its Very Confusing???:hun::joke:

Don't worry Sarge, the rest of us are just fine - it is only you. :D

Actually, I suspect that the SM5s have the assisted shifting setup - BRP just put a 'traditional' foot lever interface on it. ;)

Tom
 
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