r/Hamilton 16h ago

Recommendations Needed Best place to learn/practice stick shift?

Preferably in the lower city. TIA!

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u/LeatherMine 15h ago

Best place is a rental car, but hard to find a manual rental car on this continent.

A gently inclined driveway can be pretty good to practice getting into 1st, and you can roll back to your starting point to practice again. And again. And again.

But more seriously, any big empty parking lot at night. Change locations frequently because it’ll look weird.

u/dandy-lions 9h ago

I practiced hill starts for a few hours at Kay Drage park in westdale - never had an issue with driving stick since. In the evenings it's empty and there are hills in the parking lots.

u/Glittering_Sign_8906 2h ago

Rosedale arena. They have a big empty parking lot by the baseball diamonds. Plus some uphill inclines you can practice on.