do basic street bikes use the foot shifter for all six gears??

Question

if not how does it work??

Answer 1

All modern production bikes use the foot for all gears (whether 5 or 6 speed). As stated previously, automatic bikes were experimented with, but these days they're only used on quads. In the seventies and early eighties severl manufacturers tried auto bikes, ie the Honda cb 750 automatic. However, even it required one shift from low gear to high gear.

going farther back to the first days of motorcycles, stick shifts were used on bikes, but I believe they were still sequential, meaning you had to go though each gear in order (sequential), you couldn't take 2nd gear up to red line and then jump straight to 5th gear to cruise as in a car. These gear levers were called "suicide shifters" as it was generally agreed that taking your hands off the controls, even to shift, is in broad terms a bad idea.

Nevertheless, suicide shifters were used into the 50's.

Finally, some very old bikes used a hand operated cranck to control the transmission gearing, offering constantly variable transmissions, or CVT, which has come back into automobile used in recent years. Actually, I believe scooters normally use CVTs. But they're automatic.

Answer 2

Some quads, small bikes for kids, scooters and a few older bikes do/did have automatic transmissions. Just gas and go. A centrifugal clutch does the work.

Answer 3

All streets bikes are like that. That is the only way it should be.

Answer 4

No ! I even have not been chased by capacity of six bridesmaids on motorcycles ! i might lots extremely this take place to me (lots extra relaxing !) than be chased by capacity of an offended better half's mom on a motorbike & wielding a heavy sharpened awl !

Answer 5

Every bike I have ever riden is that way. What else are you gonna use?

Answer 6

yes