Abstract: A manual transmission having an input shaft whose rotation is transmitted to an output shaft by a selected set of gearwheel pairs, which include gearwheels that are positioned on common axes at an angle to one another. The gearwheel pairs each comprise at least one cone-shaped gearwheel. Rotational direction reversal of the output shaft can be produced, upon actuation of a clutch, by an intermediate wheel which is positioned to one side of the arrangement axes and which engages a mating gear located on the driving side and one located on the driven side. At least one of the mating gears is conical and the intermediate wheel is cylindrical and arranged relative to the mating gears such that a rotational axis of the intermediate wheel is parallel to the lines of contact with the mating gears. The rotational axes of the intermediate wheel and each mating gear intersecting at a common point.