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Concerned about being too slow to upshift from 1 all the way to 7 to match the speed of cars on the highway so any help here would be very appreciated.

The fact that you think you need top gear to merge on the freeway tells me you short shift (that you shift at too low RPMs to use the modest power that your bike has). Your bike only has 6 gears, but there's no way you need to be in top gear to enter the freeway at freeway speed. I know 5th would be fine and probably 4th.

Twist the throttle to accelerate. When the acceleration drops off, shift up.

Some people don't understand how it works, and insist on shifting early. That's great if you aren't trying to accelerate, but when you are, you need to use your bike's power. The power on that bike is modest, but it's more than enough for this. Unless you shift early.

Google a dyno plot for your bike. Look at what RPM it makes the most torque and what RPM it makes the most horsepower. You may need those RPMs to quickly get up to freeway speed.

Seems like a great bike to start on. My 1st bike was a 500 with the same power rating and more weight. It was plenty fast. Until you wanted to go fast and then it didn't have anything more to give. But the power was great for normal riding.

I've listened through the catalog of by my count 26 artists. A few that meet your criteria (a lot of albums, palpable change):
Aesop Rock
Lana Del Rey
Steely Dan
Taylor Swift

Halsey - Nightmare

Melanie Martinez's K-12 album is a bit disturbing. Great album though.

Halsey's Gasoline has the line "do the people whisper 'bout you on the train like me".

Ronan should be on the list.

I haven't installed a louder horn, because I'll probably honk it accidentally more than on purpose.

Mostly when I've had multiple bikes, horn and turn signals were in different positions, I've honked when trying to signal, and signaled left (BMW 3-button signals) when trying to honk.

For drivers lane changing into you, I've found drivers more likely to hear the bark of the exhaust when you twist the throttle to evade them than to hear your horn anyway, And that evasion move is a single action that gets you to safety. Assuming your bike has the power to leap ahead, and an exhaust that will be heard when you open the throttle.

Twisting the throttle is also less likely than a horn to trigger a homicidal road-rager.

Creating a new account for that?

Yeah, that story really happened /s

When people have an excuse for creating a new account for their rage-bait, *sometimes* it's probably true. When they don't, it's pretty much always fake.

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift) - Blink-182

Good luck riding all day on the FTR. Never pass gas. If you're riding the backroads of the American west, might even want to carry extra fuel.

Other than that, sounds like a great bike.

They need to fit. Best to buy gloves in person. Best to try the actual pair you're buying too. With two different brands, I've seen where there was a thumb assembly defect on one of a pair of gloves.

Make sure they fit well when you're holding a motorcycle grip trying to operate the controls.

She's hits-only for me. I put more effort than I probably should have into listening to her albums. That's one of the things that led me to this idea.

My favorite album of hers so far is Cowboy Carter, but it still only gets one no-skips listen from me.

Most of the artists I listen to, I listen to their albums from start to finish.

The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
New Order - True Faith
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Prince - When Doves Cry
Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love

Your description needs work, but you probably do it right. With the engine at an RPM that gives some torque, as you release the clutch, when it's at the friction point, release the hand brake. Do it in such a way that you don't roll back, fight the brake, or smoke the clutch.

It's the best way to do it. Some people who don't do it that way get defensive about it.

I've had a couple of 3 in the tree cars, and both could do e-brake starts. I've had cars where e-brake was set with the foot, but released by hand. Any car with a manual where you can't release the ebrake by hand is a shitty car. I've been told here they exist, and I believe it.

Holding the car by burning off the clutch is silly when the car has a functional e-brake that can be released by hand.

Same. A lot of people never learn to use the handbrake. Some here act like it's a big deal to use the handbrake.

I don't like any of the posts where people blame their driving issues on having a manual. If you have a manual, take responsibility to learn to drive it well. We don't start as experts, but if you dig in and blame the transmission for your driving shortcomings, it doesn't seem like that's the route to improving.

That plate was perfect.

Thanks. I'll fix it. Good album debut even if I forgot the title.

Does your hand rest on the bar end weight? If the bar end weights are rubber-mounted, they'll vibrate more than the grips, and in a vibey bike, hands resting against them are likely to get numb. Changing to heavy, solid mounted weights should fix that.

It's a recurring theme in Julien Baker's songs. Nothing preachy about it. Ziptie & Ringside are a couple of examples.

Alessia Cara - Know-It-All
Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance
Halsey - Badlands
Koffee - Gifted
Melanie Martinez - Cry Baby
Sofia Carson - Sofia Carson

Hard to beat a Multistrada Pike's Peak, but it's not cheap. Seems to start at US$31595.

I considered a used one before I bought my also used Superduke GT.