My bro is getting a YFZ sometime soon, he has some idea on shifting gears but he wants to know how he can shift correctly and how he can shift into neutral. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

hes getting a yfz 450 and he doesnt even know how to shift gears?

 

I would highly recommend not getting a YFZ if you dont know how to shift gears because even shifting it into third you can flip it over backwards with a bad combo of clutch and gas. Tell your brother to start out on a smaller and less dangerous quad to learn on.

 

the YFZ is not the quad for him....

but i will tell you this: shifting requires you to use the clutch lever which is the left lever as your sitting on the quad, to shift into first press the shifter all the way down to get into first, then to shift into second you pull the shifter up, nuetral is inbetween 1st and 2nd gear and can be obtained by slowly shifting up from 1st, now the gearing pattern is this:
(starting from first)
1st
nuetral
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th (yfz has 6 gears?)

once again i HIGHLY recomend your brother not getting the yfz until he has alot more expeirence, try a raptor 350 or a blaster if you like 2 strokes.

 

Funny, if you get this question in the yamaha forum everyone will say that the yfz is a great bike to start on, you just have to careful.

I for one do not abide by this thinking. The yfz is too powerful and likes to be ridden too hard for a rookie to jump on. My cousins and I have ridden quads, bikes, trikes, go karts, mopeds, and everything you can think of since our fathers could get us on them. A few months after I got rid of my cr60 that I had raced for two years I had my father's built trx250r. I was not ready for that kind of power, and I dont think that many if any newbies are. Just a word of caution, take it as you wish.

As far as your question, I'll try to help but I'm not sure what you are asking. The yfz has a 5 speed trans. One down and 4 up. So to find neutral you downshift all the way to first and shift half a click up. It takes a few times to get it right and I still have issues with linkage based shifters every once in a while. Practice is all you can do.

 

*sigh* why do all quads have a 1st, neutral, 2nd gear system?

 

Simple. Think about climbing a really steep hill you need to down shift but you shift too many times and hit N now you're screwed and rolling backwards down the hill.

Main reason for the 1st N 2rd thing is so you don't downshift into N without meaning to.

 

i try to shift from 1st to 2nd and hit neutral all the time

 

Think more along the lines of mx and xc racing and the benifits of having gearing like that.........it sucks for dragging, but good for the other types. Think, I think most dirtbikes shift like this too.......