reverse shift pattern on 929

[stumpy]

 Just wondering if anybody has done it to a 929. It is not as easy to do as my f4i, I just wanted to get used to it on my street bike first before I did it on a race weekend.

[lfg929]

It is a piece of cake on a 929. Here are the steps:

1) Remove left peg
2) Remove shift lever and linkage, reinstall left peg
3) Throw shift lever and linkage in the trash
4) Order VFR800 shift lever ($25 from www.ronayers.com)
5) Install VFR800 shift lever
6) Enjoy reverse shifting

Seriously though, all you need is the VFR lever and you are set. The VFR doesn't use a linked shift lever so you just bolt the lever directly on the shift drum. It worked well with both the stock rearsets and the Woodcraft rearsets I have on there now. You can do the same thing with the RC51 and older CBR 600's as well (won't work on the 600RR due to stacked engine design).

FYI, if you go this route then make doubly sure the shift lever is adjusted high enough such that something else (engine cases, footpeg, etc) will drag before the shift lever does if you get really cranked over on the left side. It sure would suck to have the ground send you into a false neutral mid corner while hard on the gas fully leaned over. I have mine higher than the engine cases and figure if I am dragging the cases then I am probably on my way down anyway so it won't matter.

[firebladetoronto]

Yours if friggin high enough!!!!  :o

But reverse shifting is cool!!

[lfg929]

Hey, at least you didn't drag it on the ground and high side yourself during the race!

BTW, we dragged the crap out of my fairing. I am patching the hole on the right side probably tomorrow, but we also got the left side. Just rubbed the paint of but still. Hopefully before the next race and/or track day I will have the fairings adjusted such that they are in a little tighter. Can't afford to patch them after every trip to the track...  ;)

[firebladetoronto]

That is all you brother....I don't get low enough to drag fairing...especially on my left...I suck on lefts...

[crazycurrie]

Just curios as to what year VFR i would need to order the shifter from? as i have been wanting to do this to my 954 8)

[Bernie]

I got  a VFR lever for my RC51 and I think the shift levers from all years of the 800cc VFR are the same.

[crazycurrie]

ok ill order one up but can anyone who has changed there shift pattern on there 929/954 please post a picture just so i can see what it looks like?  :)

[speedster_1]

Anybody with Sato sets on a 954 try this...I assume it's just like the 929 but I wonder about my Sato linkage????

[gerry]

yes someone please post a pic.  i've been thinking about doing this on my 954.

thx

[crazycurrie]

So realitivly speaking for those that do have reverse shift on there bikes already. How much more of and advantage does make for you to have... Does really help with your times on the track.... :-*

[Eric Kelcher]

comfort level really. When you are upshifting you are speeding up so tucked in as much as possible, much easier to push down than to lift up with body already as close to knees as possible. Also you normally do not need to downshift in a corner but you do normally need to upsift after a corner you can prepare for the upshift  when in gp by placing foot over shift there norammly is not room under shifter to prepare for shift.

Also the whole it is easier and more positvie upshift when pushing down than when pulling up but I have never really had that problem.