My Sears 15HP has 6 gears and is dead fast.
I had a cub cadet at one point, with a hydromatic transmission (infinately variable). I put my wife on it one time, and thought I had explained the operation of the tranny (move the lever forward, and you go forward, move it back and you go backwards).
She slammed the lever full forward and roared off. I was damned impressed. I didn't realize that she didn't get the variable bit. She oversteered in the turn at the end of the chute leading to the garage and put the tractor into the chain link fence, wrapping it up pretty well.
She hasn't ridden a tractor since. Gotta mow the lawn myself.
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