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19-08-2007, 03:10pm
HI there , I think that a lot of people actually do clucthless shifting ( up gears ) and not even realize it , its especialy evident after many hours of riding when your tired and you do not fully activate the clutch and rather just 'feather' the clutch. Lots of riders learn this style of changes from there dirt bike days ( i still ride dirt bikes - and have a CRF450 )
As other members of this cool forum have said , provided you have no preload on the gear box at time of gear upchange you should not have any damage occur.
You can actually practice this in your manual car, going from gear to neutral without clutch - you need to have neither power on or compression braking happening , but neutral revs to keep in between both loads - you will be able to easily push gear lever into neutral without any effort at all. ( dont try to go to gear though - this is just an excercise in knowing loads and there effects)
as for down shifting - its very difficult to get this right and usually ends in huge 'cluncks' - this is best to be avoided and may end in damage to gear box.
Hope this has been of some help
Boc
As other members of this cool forum have said , provided you have no preload on the gear box at time of gear upchange you should not have any damage occur.
You can actually practice this in your manual car, going from gear to neutral without clutch - you need to have neither power on or compression braking happening , but neutral revs to keep in between both loads - you will be able to easily push gear lever into neutral without any effort at all. ( dont try to go to gear though - this is just an excercise in knowing loads and there effects)
as for down shifting - its very difficult to get this right and usually ends in huge 'cluncks' - this is best to be avoided and may end in damage to gear box.
Hope this has been of some help
Boc
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