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Originally Posted by angry pancake
I'm not sure I get the motorcycle reference. That sequential gear system is almost idiot proof and gear grinding seems really forgivable on a bike.
I'd guess the more difficult double clutch/rev shifting for AP occurred with double clutching and column shifting. Column shifting seemed so fucking non-intuitive compared to a floor shifter. But, I haven't seen one of those in a long time.
I'll confess that AP isn't much at using the toe-heel method in down shifting. I really never found a need to do that except for engine braking scenarios in the piece of shit army truck that had air brakes.
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This is just my personal experience, but for me I guess it comes down to how you "think" about how stick-shifting works. The flow between brain, foot, and hand coordination and how it works in your head. I could drive plenty of stick shift tractors and farm equipment just fine, but struggled a lot with driving a stick-shift car well until I got a motorcycle.
I had no clue how to drive a motorcycle before I bought it, and spent the next week learning a lot. After learning how to shift properly with a bike (and as you said, as downshifting and gear-grinding is almost guaranteed for people who ride). So it just made the concept of "clutch-shift-release-accelerate" a lot easier for me to process mentally after riding a motorcycle for a couple years.