Coyote Chris
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Hummm...I am missing the concept here....I have never owned an automatic transmission car or bike. Before the days of synchromesh gears, people did things like double clutching to match gear speeds...I think the MGB was the last car I knew of that didnt have
syncho on first gear.....
So, let me get this straight...when a person upshifts,the engine is under load, propelling the vehicle.... the clutch is pulled in as the throttle is backed off ,unloading the engine... the revs drop to some level depending on the speed of the shift and the vehicle, and the gear change is made and the clutch is let out and the engine goes to its next speed under load, which is lower.
When a person is down shifting, say, during the approach to a stop light that is red... the throttle is trailing the engine, or, if you will, the engine is being turned by the rear wheel and the throttle is in the closed position. As the bike slows, one may pull in the clutch, and the engine speed will drop....then the person downshifts and lets out the clutch...at that point, the engine will be turned faster and act with more braking action, of course depending on the speed that all of this is done.
But there seems to be a group of people here that feel they can blip the throttle to raise the revs and then let out the clutch at the exact momment that will match the new engine speed when the clutch is let out?
Well, I suppose that is possible just as it is possible to try and predict when to let out the clutch on the upshift so there is no "jerk".
So I suppose the question that remains is....if you do this, are you saving the clutch at the expense of the rest of the engine?
I am not an agressive driver unless the situation calls for it. I have never replaced a clutch in any bike or car....my wife has never owned an automatic car and she is not the most gentile shifter on the planet, either upshifting or down shifting....she has one car with
298,000 and one car with 191,500 miles...her last car we sold with 250,000 miles on it....we have never replaced a clutch in one of her cars either....
I think I need to call "Click and Clack" at Cartalk....I am not understanding the need here.....
syncho on first gear.....
So, let me get this straight...when a person upshifts,the engine is under load, propelling the vehicle.... the clutch is pulled in as the throttle is backed off ,unloading the engine... the revs drop to some level depending on the speed of the shift and the vehicle, and the gear change is made and the clutch is let out and the engine goes to its next speed under load, which is lower.
When a person is down shifting, say, during the approach to a stop light that is red... the throttle is trailing the engine, or, if you will, the engine is being turned by the rear wheel and the throttle is in the closed position. As the bike slows, one may pull in the clutch, and the engine speed will drop....then the person downshifts and lets out the clutch...at that point, the engine will be turned faster and act with more braking action, of course depending on the speed that all of this is done.
But there seems to be a group of people here that feel they can blip the throttle to raise the revs and then let out the clutch at the exact momment that will match the new engine speed when the clutch is let out?
Well, I suppose that is possible just as it is possible to try and predict when to let out the clutch on the upshift so there is no "jerk".
So I suppose the question that remains is....if you do this, are you saving the clutch at the expense of the rest of the engine?
I am not an agressive driver unless the situation calls for it. I have never replaced a clutch in any bike or car....my wife has never owned an automatic car and she is not the most gentile shifter on the planet, either upshifting or down shifting....she has one car with
298,000 and one car with 191,500 miles...her last car we sold with 250,000 miles on it....we have never replaced a clutch in one of her cars either....
I think I need to call "Click and Clack" at Cartalk....I am not understanding the need here.....