Reversing system for a motorcycle

A manually operable selecting device for switching a motorcycle transmission housed in a transmission housing between a forward drive by way of an internal combustion driving engine and a reverse drive by way of an electrical engine starter motor, said selecting device including a manually engageable operating element which in use is mounted on the transmission housing,

• wherein the operating element is mounted at an end of an operating shaft, and
• wherein the operating shaft, being removable from the shaft of the selecting device, is non-rotatably connected with the shaft of the selecting device outside the housing of the transmission.

A manually operable selecting device for switching a motorcycle transmission housed in a transmission housing between a forward drive by way of an internal combustion driving engine and a reverse drive by way of an electrical engine starter motor, said selecting device including a manually engageable operating element which in use is mounted on the transmission housing,

• a selecting device comprising a first shaft rotatably disposed on the transmission housing,
• wherein the operating element is mounted at an end of the first shaft, and
• wherein a second shaft is interposed between the transmission housing and the first shaft, said second shaft being rotatably disposed in a holding block which is fixedly connected with the transmission housing, said manually engageable operating element being mounted on the second shaft, said second shaft being selectively removable from the first shaft and being operable to be non-rotatably connected with the first shaft at a position outside the transmission housing.