Bob, if you've never had a Royal Enfield, you've never had a Neutral finder. One of their innovations nobody ever copied AFAIK.
Look carefully at the side view picture and you'll see an extra lever on the gearbox. In addition to the long shift lever with the rubber tip, there's a small lever behind the kicker?
Just gone and took some close ups:
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So, motoring along in 2nd, 3rd or 4th, you de-clutch, lift your heel up and press down on the front pad on the lever and, hey presto, the box is in neutral.
The regular gear lever works as you would expect. Well, except it's right foot, up for first, down for second third fourth. And of course, it moves back to a central position after each change. But when you shift, the little lever moves round, and stops in a new position with the pointer showing the which gear you are in.
If you look at the rear of the lever, see it best in third picture, there's a gear indication scribed on the case. By the time you're in fourth, that pointer is round at 4 so front of lever is quite high! I can change gear without looking but I still need to look down to find that little lever.
I've
wundered whether you could use it from 1st by getting heel of boot under the lever and lifting but I don't know if that would work and not gonna try in case I damage sommat.
The explanation is quite long-winded but using it is quite easy. I'm sure with time it will become second nature.