You may have heard a lot of things about the Honda E-Clutch system by now, but let me ask you this: Did they come from someone who actually rode one? If they have, awesome. But if not, then I feel like it's my responsibility to tell you more about it. Why? Because I've ridden one, so I can tell you a pretty reasonable amount about my experiences with it.
This isn't a long-term review; rather, it's first impressions. For a longform written version, you're welcome to read my full review that we published shortly after I got back from checking it out in Los Angeles, doing some city sightseeing.
But one thing I can't possibly stress enough is that the E-Clutch is emphatically not some type of automatic transmission. You still very much need to shift gears up and down with your left foot. Instead, what changes with the E-Clutch is that you have a choice in whether you use the clutch lever or not. If you want to use it, you can! But if you don't want to, that's also fine.
