My first car was a stick shift with absolutely no electronics to prevent be from being a badass, or to save me from myself, or to save itself from me. I sacrificed the clutch teaching myself how to launch. I sacrificed 1st teaching myself how to double clutch. I sacrificed 2nd and 3rd’s shift collars, respectively, teaching myself how to downshift without using the clutch while left foot braking, by first taking my foot off the gas and granny shifting it into neutral, and then briefly floorboarding it while it’s in neutral, and then letting the revs fall until it matches the gear I want, and then granny shifting it again. Everyone should have something like that as their first car, drive it to the middle of nowhere where there’s no one and nothing to hit, and destroy it for the sake of becoming the best possible driver. It’s a travesty that they don’t make cars like that anymore, truly.
Are you a guy? Because I drive manual (hate automatic transmission in cars, don’t like shifting bikes at all though) and one time my husband borrowed his dad’s truck because his car was broken, we went out to a concert and he (husband) got drunk so I drove us home, it was so hard to shift that truck, I had to stand on the clutch, like my ass came off the seat. Anyway, I downshifted to slow down and drunk husband found it really sexy for some reason. So you are not alone.
I am a guy but this is something that my girlfriend told me. However, I personally do find women riding geared motorcycles hot. So I totally empathise with your husband :D
Driving a stick shift
Or as we in Europe call it: Driving
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Well let me tell ya about an 8 speed rig with a triple splitter and air brakes, with a 53 foot van and a full hazmat… CERTIFIED!
You haven’t driven a stick until you’ve shifted 24 times without repeats or synchromesh.
I was with you until the gatekeeping.
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I’m with you again.
My first car was a stick shift with absolutely no electronics to prevent be from being a badass, or to save me from myself, or to save itself from me. I sacrificed the clutch teaching myself how to launch. I sacrificed 1st teaching myself how to double clutch. I sacrificed 2nd and 3rd’s shift collars, respectively, teaching myself how to downshift without using the clutch while left foot braking, by first taking my foot off the gas and granny shifting it into neutral, and then briefly floorboarding it while it’s in neutral, and then letting the revs fall until it matches the gear I want, and then granny shifting it again. Everyone should have something like that as their first car, drive it to the middle of nowhere where there’s no one and nothing to hit, and destroy it for the sake of becoming the best possible driver. It’s a travesty that they don’t make cars like that anymore, truly.
Are you a guy? Because I drive manual (hate automatic transmission in cars, don’t like shifting bikes at all though) and one time my husband borrowed his dad’s truck because his car was broken, we went out to a concert and he (husband) got drunk so I drove us home, it was so hard to shift that truck, I had to stand on the clutch, like my ass came off the seat. Anyway, I downshifted to slow down and drunk husband found it really sexy for some reason. So you are not alone.
I am a guy but this is something that my girlfriend told me. However, I personally do find women riding geared motorcycles hot. So I totally empathise with your husband :D
I don’t know how, I need someone to teach me!