[Excaliber]

On the third gear shift:

Open palm, SIMPLY push it forward, it will find the gate. If YOU try to find the gate, you'll mess up the shift much of the time. Let the SPRING in the gear shift mechanism find the gate. Open palm, push forward, that's it.

Steeda TriAx has an even stronger spring and better gate than the stock shifters do. Even then, if you try to hard to shift following an H pattern, you can still screw up. But Steeda is pretty awesome for making the 3rd gear everytime.