I rode my bullet and lightning for two years as my only form of transport. Gearing is on different sides but both had 5 speed gearboxes (changed the gearbox on the lightning from 4 to 5 speed). Strangely enough the hardest part was which foot to put down at stop. Never seemed to get it right unless on the same bike for a while.
Made for some awkward stops. Also relied a little bit more on the front brake.
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Warwick
Yup! Jamming down on the gear shift for the first few rides expecting the rear brake was this old longtime "righty's" experience when first astride my Enfield. But one quickly overcomes that old muscle memory, and now I certainly wouldn't go through the bother of swapping it. In fact, I kinda like the "down and out" to first, now that I'm used to it, and "higher up" works for me too. I further suspect that some fine day, sooner than I'd like to think, when I'm scanning the Interwebs for those sweet adult diaper deals, and can no longer ride without the kids bringing it up at those involuntary committal hearings, the "retro-youngsters", weary of their Danish zero-impact scootlets, might seek out something more "visceral" like my internal combustion single...but yet not so arcane as a righthand shifter. Most riders are used to the left.
Now that I dwell on it, I can't help but wonder if the cause of our Ivan Grozny's fancy righthand gear selector doodad failure might not have been one or more emergency stop stomps to starboard, when port would have been advised.