This anxiety's personal, about jobs and money and health, but also general: that we can't go on like this, running only to stand still, making things faster and faster, consuming more and more food (with consequent pressures on prices); that somehow a world of more than seven billion people is going to have to "downshift" to make it, revise its criteria of what constitutes well-being.
My teeth chattering with the descent, I splash into the water, downshift and pedal furiously to make it up the clay embankment, which I almost do.
This transmission doesn't use a clutch pedal, but it is much faster than similar units thanks to its use of two clutches, and can simulate a racing technique called heel-and-toe downshifting by blipping the gas during downshifts to make them smoother.
Yes, the shift pattern may resemble a Pac-Man maze, but when the driver finds a gear, it may induce delusions of grandeur, thanks to Active Rev Matching – an electronic flattery system that blips the throttle on downshifts to make a driver look, or at least sound, like Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Don't even think about fancy footwork, such as heel-and-toe down-shifting, where one revs the throttle with the right half of the foot that is braking during downshifts to make the shifts smoother and to go easier on the drivetrain.
It isn't even just that my generation has "a notoriously hard-charging work ethic and drive to get ahead" that can "make it difficult to envision downshifting into the slower pace of retired life," as Gallup found in 2014.
If I had ridden the road before, known when to downshift, I could have made it pedaling.
There were certain movements they had to perform: shift to fifth, downshift to first, make a U-turn, stop at the imitation traffic light.
The optimal climbing position on moustache bars is right next to or slightly forward of the shifting position, making it much easier to downshift when gravity unexpectedly gets stronger.
Andreychuk cited the Lightning's outstanding defensive play, but Tampa Bay had the benefit of an early 2-0 lead in Game 3. The Lightning downshifted its speedy attack to make sure the Islanders did not rev up theirs.
That said, he acknowledges that it is difficult for parents and students to make a decision that might require downshifting their expectations.
