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6 years on the stock transmission and never had a single issue.
I'm amazed that people use the clutch when they shift.
What's Gary Semics and other credit worthy trainers say to do?
Pit Row
Totally situational. Depending on what/where/when/how dictates whether or not I use the clutch. This is across my two-stroke, four-stroke, mx bike, offroad bike, supermoto bike, and roadracing bike. Always situational.
I have always been amazed that there are people that use the clutch when shifting.
Downshifting, if I'm in the air I don't touch the clutch. I will pull the clutch in when downshifting probably 90% of the time.
I've always used the clutch, either up or down shifting. Seems lazy and harder on the bike not to. Blipping the throttle seems slower than just keeping the throttle pegged and dabbing the clutch.
The transmission is suffering, but when I was fighting for a national title in my class, it probably made a diffrence, giving you those tense of a second, that eventually add up.
My theory is that they start racing and understandably know very little. They then pick up (incorrect) advice and knowledge from other relative newcomers at those local racers. They themselves then pass that down the line in due course.
Before you know it, the whole local scene is filled with people who really don’t know what they’re talking about, but are passing this bad info down the line to the next wave of newbies.
I know of one guy who only ever used old engine oil on air filters, because he’d been told that was fine. He couldn’t understand why his motors didn’t last.
I know another schoolboy father who will happily dump money sending his kid’s suspension off to an ‘expert’ who has never seen his kid race, but who he trusts because said suspension expert was recommended by the father of a kid who’s been racing six months longer than his and finishes two places ahead in the junior 85cc schoolboy class.
No need of blipping the throttle when shifting.
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