Originally posted by BeQuietAndDrive
I guess I'll practice doing the downshift...I doubt it's worth it though as my first gear is so short, it's good to maybe 15 mph.
Probably not worth it. And that short first gear is what makes that downshift seem so difficult. If you top out at 15 at, say 7k rpm, that puts you at about 3k at 7 mph. So, to execute a smooth downshift to first at 7 mph, you'd have to blip the throttle hard enough to get PAST 3k to synch up the shift.