Tired of struggling to back your motorcycle into a tricky parking spot? A bike with a reverse gear could be just the solution ...

The reverse gear, however, doesn't use a helical cut cog and is instead just a straight cut gear. This means that the indentations run across the gear instead of at a jaunty angle.

In a manual transmission (MT), the driver can select the gear they need—indicated by a number from 1 to 6, or 1 to 5 for forward gears and “R” for Reverse—by pressing the clutch pedal and adjusting a ...