SO at age 27, I buy one, a KZ400, And am standing there again, looking at it. Motor, cycle, motorcycle, motor, motorcycle .... Ah, oh, er, what are all these levers and pedals???? The guy says this is clutch, this if front brake this is rear brake, this is gear shift, one down and 4 up .... and walks away. I look at the shift lever and see the 1-n-2-3-4-5 marked there, what did he say, one what, 4 what, huh... . He comes back later and helps me get it in netural, start it and he walks away. I managed to to make it out of the parking lot, keept repeating to my self front brake, clutch, rear brake, shift lever... I dont know how I figured out the shift pattern, because at first I thought it had 6 positions. Was a few occassions in that first few months that I could have killed myself. Did run off road more than once.