Question:
Im new to dirt biking and I know you hold the clutch in to put it in 1st gear if your in neutral, but when your riding do you still need to pull the clutch in to switch gears?
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as an old racer i can say we only used the clutch to start and stop...
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Usually yes. Sometimes you can get the gear to slip in without the clutch. But usually you'll have to pull the clutch in atleast a quarter of the way.Depends on if you have an auto or manual. but all dirts bikes are manually put into first.
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you could just let off the gas and shift without the clutch (its called speed shifting) but if your not good at it you could damage the transmission. basically if you can make it work smoothly you should be alright. but you still could possibly shorten the life of the tranny. good luckShifting without using the clutch is a technique taught to racers. The purpose of it is not be smooth - its much more diffcult to be smooth without the clutch than with it. The purpose is to reduce the amount of time that your motor isn't pulling. On a typical half-mile straight on a racetrack, if you're shifting through all the gears and it takes you a quarter of a second to squeeze then release the clutch, that's 5 shifts, or a total of 1.25 seconds that your motor isn't doing anything. This is one of many techniques that racers use to be faster - but there is no particularly good reason to use this technique on the street - since your goal on the street is to be safe and to enjoy your motorcycle for as long as possible.
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Even racers have to use the clutch to get rolling. And getting proficient in riding to a point where you'd want to start learning "racing technique" would mean that shifting smoothly was second nature to you. If you showed up at a race school, and you couldn't shift smoothly, they probably wouldn't even bother teaching you, but would tell you to come back when you'd learned it on your own.
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travis the answer is no. use the clutch to engage from neutral to first, to launch and to go back to neutral. most shifting is done without the clutch by simply burping the throttle and applying pressure on shifter at the desired shift point. now downshifting is different, if you don't use it you'll rattle the transmission, most likely damage it. and you'll lose the rear tire traction with wheel hop.This also depends on what dirt bike you are riding. A trail bike like a Yamaha TT-R for instance doesn't have as good of a transmission as say a Yamaha YZ250. A motocross bike's tranny is better synchronized and more closely spaced. On something like the TT-R it may shift a little smoother with the clutch. On a race bike I never use the clutch to up shift, but will sometimes use it to down shift. That depends on the speed I'm running at the time of the shift and how many gears I plan to down shift. Another reason most racers don't use the clutch is to reduce arm pump. This is a motocross racers worst enemy.
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don't you have to lift the toilet seat to pee.If you want to know, then take my example, when I was a truck driver. I was taught that all 18 wheelers had to be double clutched in order to shift from one gear to another. Clutch in to take out of one gear, release the clutch then depress it again, to put it into the next gear. After a couple years, I learned that if I timed it correctly, with the correct engine speed I could take the shifter and shifted from one gear to the next, I can do it on my bike, and if done correctly, it just slips right in. So, other than from neutral to first gear, it can be done, as long as you can hear the engine and get used to the proper pitch of the motor when shifting.
bikes have a constant mesh gear box.this means its hard to find a "false nuetral" between the gears.Race bikes quite often have a KILL switch installed on the bars...this is a momentary push button switch that stops spark whene pushed in.by applying pressure to the gear lever & hitting the switch the motor slows for a split second & the gear changes...you can achieve the same result by applying pressure to the gear lever & rolling of the accelerator for a split second.going down the gears..requires the opposite..apply pressure to the gear change & accelerate harder for a split second (blip the throttle). the gear will change..
I use this procedure on all my bikes changing up gears & have never had a problem...but going down the gears I tend to use the clutch as well as blipping the throttle because just using the engine revs to change can increase the speed coming into a corner if you dont get it perfect (getting into the corner 5/10 MPH quicker than you want to can be scary)
when first learning this technique I use to flex my little finger on the clutch hand as if I was using the clutch but not touching the clutch lever..its amazing how quick you can pick up the technique...
the reason racers do it is because if the clutch is in the rear isnt driving.Drag racers started it cos they dont have long to keep the drive on the track...
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