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

You know the sound I mean, it comes whenever you shift from the hearty rumble of your car in its forward gears to the tinny sound it makes when you try to back into a space or reverse up the road.

What happens is shifting from D to R while moving disengages the gearbox until the vehicle slows down to a crawl (less than five mph) before connecting the reverse gear, precisely the reason why ...

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 ...

The gear in one form or another is therefore suitable for use with steam turbines or high-speed marine engines. Unlike most epicyclic gears, there are in it no toothed wheels. The driving and ...

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.