Adapted from net and modified: The neutral-finder is perhaps the most ingenious device found in the Bullet gearbox. At least was found till some years ago. The neutral-finder is a device anyone would be thankful for in traffic. The heel-and-toe shifter or rotary-shift-mechanisms fade in comparison for sheer convenience. You can approach a stop in any gear, and when you are just about to stop moving, a gentle trod on the neutral-finder puts you effortlessly in (the correct !) neutral, free to idle the engine or kill it. No squinting at the neutral-light, no frenzied search for the neutral/first, no slipping-clutch-take-offs, nothing. And experienced guys, with a bit of practice do an impressive show of going to neutral during a sudden braking operation, and thence to second with a single sweep of the foot.When operating from higher gears, the neutral finder rotates the selector shaft to the neutral-position based on stopper position. When the selector-shaft in first gear, the lever is ALREADY on the stopped position. So all you have to do is to HOLD it there, with your heel, and press the gear-lever with your toe towards the second gear, whence the neutral-finder acts as the stop and stops it in neutral ! Try it !! For all its remarkable attributes, it is a very simple mechanism. Basically, it just consists of a lever that operates directly on the gear-selector, sort-of short-circuiting the ratchet-mechanism thru which we normally shift up or down. There is a stopper which stops the lever exactly in the neutral position. This stopper consists of an eccentric sleeve which can be rotated to adjust the neutral position of the lever.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:15:49 +0000
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