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Old 01-25-2012, 11:04 PM   #131 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jay4500 View Post
whats the benefit or purpose of shifting from 3th straight to 5th or 2nd straight to 5th gear. I can see skipping gears on a down shift but cannot understand skipping on up shifts.
No competitive benefit - the occasion where I did this was a brisk romp for the first two gears, then noticing that I was well in excess of the speed limit in second, so I let way off the throttle and tried to find 5th for a cruise gear. Only found the grind.

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