bottom gear

"Do try to remember to put the clutch in before you change into bottom gear, you'll find it a great help."

He had to shout to make himself heard above the sound of an engine at maximum revolutions in bottom gear.

This is when time drops into bottom gear.

It roared up the hill in bottom gear.

A heavy lorry ground past in bottom gear, following the pavement edge anxiously.

A car was labouring up the hill in bottom gear under a hard drive and hooting vigorously.

Keith crashed the lever into bottom gear, felt the van move forward, bumping over rough ground.

"They dye the horses black", Yarborough said after the escort passed, grinding along in bottom gear.

Within half an hour of the first car's arrival the congested road traffic had slowed to a tedious, bottom gear crawl.

Hogg downshifted and crawled the last hundred feet to the gate in the van's bottom gear.

Our proposal stipulates that bottom gears cannot be deployed below a depth of 1 000 metres.

We cruised to a big lead without getting out of bottom gear and continuity was difficult to obtain after half-time.'

A low bottom gear made it useful for cross country and close ratios made it a fast road bike.

Traffic grinds around in bottom gear, controlled by potholes rather than traffic lights.

The gearbox gained synchromesh on its bottom gear.

He engaged bottom gear.

As O'Hara engaged in bottom gear, a bullet tore through the body of the truck, and then another, but he took no notice.

Synchromesh was fitted to bottom gear.

As the teeth first start to engage, the top gear tooth contacts the bottom gear tooth inside the pitch diameter.

Having no synchromesh on bottom gear could make changes into the lowest ratio, which would normally require double declutching, difficult.

A retrograde step was the fitting of a three-speed gearbox even though it now had synchromesh on bottom gear.

But notice that the part of the top gear tooth that contacts the bottom gear tooth is very skinny at this point.

Ranni had put the car into bottom gear, and it growled up slowly, the hill-road just as bad as the road they had left.

The engine remained the same but the gearbox gained synchromesh on bottom gear and was mounted separately from the engine.

Conversely, for the same pedalling effort, a cyclist could climb a much steeper hill in bottom gear than in top gear.