Easier/quicker gear changes

[Mike Costigan]

... Would be interested in Mike's explanation also of which bits better and which worse,in those situations described.

Climbing steeper hills, I may start to get left behind, needing to change down to second earlier, but then can overhaul the 5.25 car when it is still in lower revs in top. On flatter give-and-take roads, even when both cars are running in top gear, sometimes one car has the advantage, other times the tables will turn; overall there seems to be little to choose either way.