Manual or auto, which do you prefer?

Auto for me…

In similar fashion to many others here, I’ve done my share of dicking around with Eaton twin splitters in heavy London traffic and I’m glad to see the back of the three pedal system. There was a time when I was proud to match cog to load to road and keep it smooth and tight. Nowadays I just let the thing do it all by itself and drop the wrong cog in halfway round a bend, make embarrassing departures into fast moving traffic on roundabouts and find neutral when I put in reverse.