Qickshifter
This is the first bike I’ve owned that has a quickshifter. My thoughts up to now about quickshifters have been a bit snobbish. I thought that using the clutch was an essential part of the bike riding experience, and that using an aid to help you change gears was a bit of a cop out. A bit like cheating. A bit like driving an automatic car.
The vice like grip you develop from using a bike clutch was the mark of a man!
However, I’ve revised my opinion. The quickshifter works really well, and didn’t take as much getting used to as I had feared. I remember at one point in the past, I actually watched a few videos on YouTube that explained how to use a quickshifter, so great was my trepidation. It works best when you’re accelerating and helps you race up the gears. It doesn’t work so well at low revs, so I use the clutch for slow speed manoeuvres. To be fair, and this might just be my preference, I use the quickshifter for all changes up, and use the clutch for all down changes.
It's not like you will ever forget how to change gear manually when you have a quickshifter, because realistically you won’t use it for every gear change. So you won't lose all your hard won biking skills.
Before the 1000GT, there have been many long rides where my wrist has been painful from all the clutch work it’s had to do. The quickshifter will certainly reduce that kind of fatigue.
You can turn the quickshifter off, if you want to go old school, but why would you?