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Status of this Owner's Manual at time of printing
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Buttons at a glance
1 System on/off, interrupt 2 Resume speed 3 Store speed* 4 Reduce distance 5 Store, maintain/change speed 6 Increase distance ...

Two additional gears mean threefold progress: quicker shifts, greater smoothness, enhanced efficiency.
The wider spread of ratios allows the engine to run at lower speeds, often in the "tallest" gear, 8th. Yet even with this wider spread, the steps between adjacent gears are reduced; in t ...