Topic: 1982 Honda CB900 10 Speed????

[dummkauf]

And just like the CT-90, you must be off the bike to throw the dual range lever.

"dual range lever"...I just noticed that line, and I was out in the garage last night playing with the shifter, and I think I've got the whole 10 speed thinig firgured out.  I shift through the first 5 gears like I do on any bike, and then stomp my heel on the heel lever to kick it into 6-10, and then use the regular shifter to shift through gears 6-10.  I'm assuming the heel shifter is the "dual range lever" and it did seem like it took a fair amount of force to push it down with my heel, I was thinking there was something wrong, but it sounds like you are saying this is normal for a honda 10 speed transmissions??

[Markcb750]

I believe Honda expected you to select a range, shift through 1 to 5.

I would not think a shift from 5 high, to 1 low would be wise.

[MCRider]

And just like the CT-90, you must be off the bike to throw the dual range lever.

"dual range lever"...I just noticed that line, and I was out in the garage last night playing with the shifter, and I think I've got the whole 10 speed thinig firgured out.  I shift through the first 5 gears like I do on any bike, and then stomp my heel on the heel lever to kick it into 6-10, and then use the regular shifter to shift through gears 6-10.  I'm assuming the heel shifter is the "dual range lever" and it did seem like it took a fair amount of force to push it down with my heel, I was thinking there was something wrong, but it sounds like you are saying this is normal for a honda 10 speed transmissions??

Never mind, I'm reading about it now. I'm all wrong.

[MCRider]

I guess you're right the dual range can be shifted on the fly. paraphrase from a road test "The dual range gearbox takes some getting used to. Most testers ...left it in low range until they got to high gear, then kicked it into high range for cruising".  But i guess you can play around with it all you want.

I think in general you would leave it in low range for city work and high range for highway. Not continually changing ranges.

Kinda like hi/lo range 4WD vehicles.

You can't make a mistake. whatever gear you are in say 3rd, you can go hi range 3rd or low range 3rd. Then you'd have to change to 4th in the same range you were in. Once in fourth you can change ranges, and so forth.