Why would you want a right side shifter on this model, or any model?

[jerry]

Strangely after getting back into the scene after 35 years I aquired a couple of Bultacos both with right hand drive. I'm now used to it and it feels weird to go back to left hand drive. I should mention I'm left footed but kick straighter and longer with my right. Jerry PS There was bloke running around at the weekend up at Undera alternating between a MK5 Pursang and a 410 AJS Stormer. Both right side shifters but reverse patterns. I take my hat off to him.

[firko]

PS There was bloke running around at the weekend up at Undera alternating between a MK5 Pursang and a 410 AJS Stormer. Both right side shifters but reverse patterns. I take my hat off to him.

Back in the early vintage days there was a bloke who rode a Triumph Metisse in pre 65, a Bultaco Mk3 Pursang in pre 70 and a CZ in pre '75......three different shift patterns! In the early seventies I rode my right change Bultaco Sherpa S and left wing RT1 at the same meetings and only occasionally got it wrong. It's a bit like when you visit America and your first time in the left hand drive rental car. The first 10 minutes are a tad dodgy but you pretty soon get used to it.

[jimg1au]

all my bikes that are pre 70 rh gear
all my pre 75 and pre 78 lh gear change
this  is going to be fun in aug 4/5 at nepean changing from pre 70 to pre 75 bikes

[EML]

WTF is a Naplan test?? I only went to school to eat my play-lunch and get the girls behind the bike sheds
The Bantam had a 3 speed-well actually a 1 speed followed by a 2 speed after a massive gap but I found it easy enough to cope with-at 3 miles an hour
Firko- about the left hand drive thing, I wasn't too bad in a car in Europe but absolutely shit on the pushbike-almost got cleaned up riding on the wrong side in the country side

[jerry]

I drove from Rome to Milan and then into Italian Alps left handed (first time in left hand drive!) after breaking my collarbone 3 days before I left Oz. On my own driving out of Rome trying to read a map. Don't tell me blokes can't multi skill!! J