Moto kids can drive stick shift right?

That one surprised me a bit as well. 

I was never formally thought how to drive a stick shift but figured it out pretty quickly because I knew how to use a clutch and shift gears on a bike. Granted, it was a Honda civic and probably more forgiving than the three wheelers. That said, I thought those 3 wheelers used motorcycle engines with sequential gearboxes, so it should be really easy to transition. 

My mother in law has the best stick shift story.

She was out with her dad when she was 16 in the early 80's, he got drunk and told her to drive home. They got I his porsche and she says "but dad I don't know how to drive stick"

His response, "what kind of stupid asshole doesn't know how to drive stick?"

Savatgy wants one of those 2 wheels up front 3- wheelers??? Way to ratchet up the cringe Joe dawg.

The only guys i see riding em are over 65, white beard, and weigh around 350-400 lbs, thus the need for the 3rd wheel as they cant balance the bike with all that tonnage they are carrying around in their mid section.

Bikes gave me all the confidence I needed to drive a stick from the start.

Plus my parents have always had at least one stick vehicle so I had to know it while I had my permit.

My son grew up on bikes. Put him in my Honda civic with stick, took to it like a pro. Daughter who grew up on SeaDoos already had the concept of piloting a vehicle but still needed a bit of practice, but I think she was maybe 11-12 years old and needed pillows behind and under her to reach things.

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Joey's other car is a Ridgeline

When I was 15 I had a friend with a POS stick cavalier and giant boobs. She sucked at driving it and was scared so she would let me drive us to the mall and Denny's. Pretty dumb on my part to drive around without a license but I did get to see them and ended up hooking up with her friend.

He was referring to a Polaris Slingshot.

My parents felt safe leaving me home alone with mom's RX7 in the garage because it was a manual. They also thought those pencil marks on the booze bottles would deter me. Wrong on both counts. lol

Years later when I fessed up Dad laughed about me joy riding the car, he never considered that I was already proficient with a clutch and throttle. He was pissed I watered down his good bourbon, though.

I've only driven a stick shift twice, both for very short distances. I would not be confident saying I can drive a stick, but I also feel I could adapt to it with enough time.

I actually made the same mistake both times, although they were years about (15ish and then 21ish), kept stalling and was getting pissed off, if you can start a bike, you should be able to start a manual car. Realized the parking brake was on, which is not a necessity for an automatic in Texas lol.

I knew how to drive a stick shift at about 12 years old. I wasn't good at it, mind you, but I could do it. 

My first truck was a standard Ford Courier (Mazda).

I could drive it all over the place without the clutch except for starting and stopping. Kids thought I was magic. 

I think you could, if you did it right, shift a Chevy Luv without using the clutch also. I remember one time in highschool, 3 of us piling into one to go to burger king. I was in the middle and on the way back to school  while the driver munched on his whopper I did the shifting. I forgot to wait a couple times for him to depress the clutch and i just jammed her into the next highest gear.

Man I miss mini trucks.

Would you believe me if I learned to drive with a manual trans? 1979 Mazda RX-7. 

Big difference between understanding the concept and implementing it.  The foot clutch is a totally different animal, though I DO believe those who can motorsickle adapt much quicker than those who don't.  Hard to imagine he wouldn't get the vehicle he wanted just because of that.  One hour's practice and he'd be just fine.

Grew up driving farm tractors and riding dirt bikes, but when it came time to learn my dad's f150, which by the way had a gawd-awful hard and grabby clutch, it was a little embarrassing.  The ole' boy actually said he couldn't understand why I was struggling since I had the experience I did.  Anyway, wasn't long before I was butta.

Made all my kids learn on a stick before they got their license, and their first car was always a standard.  They thanked me later.

I think a lot of Ford manual pickups have a very tall 1st gear, even on 4speeds, which doesn’t help. 
 

I was driving sticks starting very early. Started on my Grandpa’s 66 Chevy pickup with “three on the tree”. It had a tall 1st as well. 
 

If you want to have fun, try an old Mack with a worn out linkage on a two stick 5x4. 
 

OH man the old twin stick Mack.. We had a customer that we changed the transmission out to a 5-4 twin stick. Most people have no clue when you talk about them. I learned how to drive on a 1947 Willis Jeep. I could barely see over the hood. 1st truck was a 1971 F100 with a 3 on the tree. Good memories. 

So someone put a 5&4 in ON PURPOSE?

Seriously they are tough transmissions. I just like about anything else better. 9,10, 13,18…

Yes, I asked him why the hell would you want to do that? He laughed and said he loved them and it was an art to drive one. I put miles on it once we had it together and thought WHY WHY...  He then took me for a ride and the way he would wrap his arm around 1 of the stickes to shift 1 up and the other down was something. Not sure a work of art but it was something.

Supposedly the logging industry uses them in the hills, but North West Ohio is flat.

Yep, in the Courier, whoever rode Bitch did all the shifting, unless it was a girl, then you got the occasional bush brush.

I grew up on a ranch and have been driving since about 4th grade. I learned how to drive on a stick and had my own truck, a 1956 International to drive around on the ranch with. I remember the first time I drove a car with an automatic tranny, my aunt asked me to move her car during a visit. I didn't know how to drive an auto and had to ask her how to do it. When I got my first motorcycle at around age 15 my knowledge of driving with a manual tranny came in very handy in transitioning to a bike. It made it pretty easy.

Years ago a famous MX racer was talking about how he wanted to get some fast sports car or something, but was a little apprehensive because he didn't know how to drive a stick. I think it might have been Ryan Hughes. 

Learned how to drive at that age…4 speed K5 Blazer. 

Good Times 

My mom was crazy as a bed bug.  She started driving big rigs in 1968.  I was 10.  She MADE me learn how to drive everything they put her in.  And if you couldn't float the gears...she got upset.  The clutch was for taking off and emergency stops.  

How the hell she could crawl in the sleeper and let me drive that thing from OKC to Albuquerque or wherever...I'll never know.

I was never good on the duplex or triplex...I got lost.

I did learn from that experience...if it can be done...I could do it.

Call me an idiot (and I was) but I taught myself to drive at 14 in my dads stick shift car, shall we say, unattended. I stayed in the neighborhood for what’s it’s worth. 

I’m 34 so squarely a millennial. There’s no excuse not to know how to do it

I’m 19, never had a stick car in the family growing up.  Always rode moto tho, few weeks back a vet ride had a hard crash, packed up his track.  Went to drive it to the front, was like fuckkk.  It’s got a stick.  Took me 20 secs to figure it out and go.   Just weird on moto shifting with foot and clutch with hand, while it car it’s opposite. I bet 95% of moto kids could figure it out.