Blipping

**kiwisfly** · 17th May 2006, 22:30

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Hasn't your bike got an H-gate shifter?

Naa, ripped it out for a dragstrip type crash box.
1st to 5th gear in 3 meters...then the bike falls over through a lack of momentum!!!!!

**kiwisfly** · 17th May 2006, 22:33

Originally Posted by vtec

I'm pretty sure that double clutching, is where you go to launch off the line, but your revs get pulled down too far by giving it too much clutch. So you pull the clutch in a bit to lift the revs. It's like taking two goes at launching your bike if you don't get it right first time. If done quickly, it can salvage a good launch. But will never be as good/quick as getting it right with one clutch movement.

So I'm trying to write a smart arse response but my eyes are full of tears of laughter...ahh bless ya!

**neats** · 17th May 2006, 23:30

Silly question i know but what do you mean blip the throttle?

**vtec** · 17th May 2006, 23:37

Originally Posted by kiwisfly

So I'm trying to write a smart arse response but my eyes are full of tears of laughter...ahh bless ya!

What's wrong with my description... it's more relevant to the world today. And having two goes at the clutch on the launch does match the term double clutching. Not capable of a smart arse response? Doesn't sound like you're capable of understanding the perspective of a far superior intellect either

**vtec** · 17th May 2006, 23:38

Originally Posted by neats

Silly question i know but what do you mean blip the throttle?

I think it may have been addressed earlier in this thread.

**N4CR** · 17th May 2006, 23:39

Originally Posted by neats

Silly question i know but what do you mean blip the throttle?

Open the throttle breifly... 'bwap' sound on most nice sounding bikes. Do it when you shift down to match revs instead of letting clutch adjust engine speed (engine braking as such).

Helps stop the arse coming out on the corro loop jumping 3>2 or 2>1 on mine when you forget just how sharp that 35k corner is

**jonbuoy** · 18th May 2006, 08:48

I always blip if I'm changing down, not round town or at low speeds or it does sound a bit try hard.

Keeping upward pressure on the lever on first to second shifts (or all shifts if you like), till after the clutch is fully released is a kind thing to do to your gearbox as well so I was told. I've never had a false neutral since.

**bert_is_evil** · 18th May 2006, 10:34

Do you blip the throttle before the clutch is fully released or as you release it?

**jonbuoy** · 18th May 2006, 10:43

I do it on releasing it just before it starts to bite again, I think the idea is just to keep the revs up a bit, just so its not on idle when you release the clutch. Stops that lurching feeling as the engine isn't being sped up by the bike motion. Depends on the bike and type of riding youre doing. Some bikes seem to have bigger "gaps" in the gearing. Don't need to if you gotta supercool slipper clutch.

**bert_is_evil** · 18th May 2006, 10:54

Thanks! Wasn't sure I was doing it correctly or just ending up looking like a try hard

**sugilite:Me** · 18th May 2006, 12:24

Originally Posted by renegade master

Your wrong, I've never thought about it on a bike(I dont change down hard often), But thats how you change down hard in a car (if you dont you shoulnt be driving). Theres no real excuse not to.

I must have performed a miracle last Sunday then. As mentioned I raced my high compression superbike, (comp is so high, the motor wants to overheat if on idle for longer than a minute after a race or 2 minutes before a race!) the race conditions went from dry to wet through the race, I was on slicks.
Only oil or ice could be added to that scenario to make it any slipperier, oh wait, thats right the track was slippery from oil dropped by a car on the Friday!

My point is, I did not blip the throttle, not even once. I was braking hard so the back end was light, this combined with slicks, a wet cold track is a good test to find if NOT blipping the throttle is going to cause problems.

Not even once did the back try and lock up, even at the end of the frount straight where I was going from 6th down to second. I don't think I can be accused of riding like a nana, because I won the race.

Again, blipping the throttle being a MUST to be smooth? Poppycock!

Don't believe the myth!

**Kendog** · 18th May 2006, 12:57

Originally Posted by jonbuoy

Keeping upward pressure on the lever on first to second shifts (or all shifts if you like), till after the clutch is fully released is a kind thing to do to your gearbox as well so I was told. I've never had a false neutral since.

That's a good piece of advice,Thanks. I'm a shocker at bunging it into neutral between first and second, reving the shit out of it and only slowing down! (Highly embarressing, especially when dragging off the little boy-racer boyz! LOL)
Mrs KD

**sAsLEX** · 18th May 2006, 13:43

Originally Posted by sugilite

My point is, I did not blip the throttle, not even once. I was braking hard so the back end was light, this combined with slicks, a wet cold track is a good test to find if NOT blipping the throttle is going to cause problems.

Not even once did the back try and lock up, even at the end of the frount straight where I was going from 6th down to second. I don't think I can be accused of riding like a nana, because I won the race.

Again, blipping the throttle being a MUST to be smooth? Poppycock!

Don't believe the myth!

But you eased the clutch out and bought the revs up to match the wheel?

Just a diff way of doing it really.

**sAsLEX** · 18th May 2006, 13:45

Originally Posted by jonbuoy

Keeping upward pressure on the lever on first to second shifts (or all shifts if you like), till after the clutch is fully released is a kind thing to do to your gearbox as well so I was told. I've never had a false neutral since.

I flip my gearboxes now so upshifts have you standing on the lever, well putting downward pressure on it, now upchanges just involve putting preuure on the lever and backing off the throttle slightly and the next gear just clicks in.