Quickshifter for V85?

[inditx]

Anyone had any experience with this one or others?
https://www.motoracingshop.com/en/quick-shifter-healtech-for-moto-guzzi-v85-tt-19-21.html
inditx

[Huzo]

Anyone had any experience with this one or others?
https://www.motoracingshop.com/en/quick-shifter-healtech-for-moto-guzzi-v85-tt-19-21.html
inditx

Not me and I never will. It’s torture on the mechanicals and will quietly go about the business of damaging the gear dogs .
It slams the next gear in before the motor has the chance to drop the required revs to suit the new ratio and the spinning flywheel is forced to drop 1,000 or so rpm in half a second without the cushioning effect of the clutch disengaging.

[Bulldog9]

Not me and I never will. It’s torture on the mechanicals and will quietly go about the business of damaging the gear dogs .
It slams the next gear in before the motor has the chance to drop the required revs to suit the new ratio and the spinning flywheel is forced to drop 1,000 or so rpm in half a second without the cushioning effect of the clutch disengaging.

100% agree

[davethewelder]

I had a V85TT, with only 75 HP QS isn't going to help, besides you won't get to hear the clunk that we all enjoy while riding a Moto Guzzi.

[PeteS]

I am hardly an expert on quick shifters. A few months ago I didn’t know what they did nor what they looked like. I had to ask here what was the device mounted on my new V100. I also have a new 2025 V85. Having played some with the quick shifter I can say I wished my V85 had one. But I think their only real application is for drag racing. Hold the throttle WFO and hit the shifter at what you think the best RPM to do so. It shifts gears faster than any automatic.
Down shifting or shifting at less than full throttle the shifts are no where as smooth. Its not a way to make a manual transmission into an automatic. So unless you want to go racing, forget about it.
The reason I think the V85 could use one is it takes longer to pull in the clutch, shift gears, and let out the clutch while backing off the throttle and reapplying throttle than its takes my V85 to accelerate through that gear, at least the first four.

Pete

[azccj]

The first bike I owned with a quick-shifter was my 2023 V100 Mandello S. And having used it I thought, what's the big dealer with this quick-shifter thing. Nearly every time I used it, I thought the transmission was going to fall out of the bike. It was jerky and not at all smooth no matter how I used it. Then I bought a Husqvarna Norden 901 which has the same engine as the KTM 890 Adventure. That bike has an excellent quick-shifter, smooth both up and down. Very handy to use when off road. Then I bought a Suzuki GSX-S1000GT which also comes with a quick-shifter. This bike has the slickest quick-shifter yet. So smooth that most of the time up-shifting can't be felt and the only way you can tell the bike has changed gears is a slight change in the exhaust tone and a slight dip in the RPMs on the tach. I use the quick-shifters all the time on both the Norden 901 and the Suzuki. When I owned the V100 I rarely used the quick-shifter for fear that doing so would damage the bike's internals.