serious ? it's easy but whoever sold you the machine should have demonstrated - or google it - anyway you just wasted your money on a dog of a machine - i would never ever buy a Rover raider ever again

Yes once you have this model going foot on clutch and taken out of park you can turn the key back half a click into the middle position then you press the little triangle button above the key a orange light will come on. This allows you to mow backwardsl. This is a safety feature to stop you reveasing over people haha anyway this needs to be done every time you use parkbrake but if your like me you can do your whole lawn without stopping. hope this helps took ages for me to work it out haha had to read the manual in the end

I had the same problem, and tried every solution I could think of including cleaning out the carb w/ carb cleaner. In the end had to take it to the dealer for a full service, which has fixed the problem (so far). Again, disappointed with the Rover, but very happy w/ the service from the Stihl shop.