Hand- en footgear.

Basic info on DKW NZ 350's

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Hand- en footgear.

Post by martdapp » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:20 am

Why did Auto Union for the NZ-series chose for hand- and footgear both?
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Post by svenn » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:16 pm

The english users manual says the following:

The hand lever makes it possible to see which gear that is engaged, and it gives the rider choice of methods acording to circumstances; he can either change gear by hand or foot. But the manual also saysthat the best way is to change by foot when the rider gets used to it :D

I would guess that the NZ was introduced when many riders still were used to only hand gear levers, and were in the middle of a method change, therefor both ways.

just my 2 cents.

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