Blipping the throttle on downshifts?

[cruza]

Keeps downshifts smoother/quicker, reduces tyre lock up . No syncos in the gearbox like on cars. same reason truckies blip thottle on down shifts in roadranger gearboxs

[zadok]

Always for smoother changes, plus clutchless upshifts.

[Ixion]

I don't think it is possible to downchange at any sort of speed on a Briddish box. And if it were the primary chain would not long survive (well, even less long than they did, which wasn't long)

I doubt that I could do it, it would feel like rape of the poor little cogs.

[homer]

I used to drive a mates Vauxhall Chevette VERY HARD alot as sober driver and in autocross and the like.
It got me pretty tuned into the downshift blip, especialy with a carload of drunk mates to give me shit every time I muzzed it up.
Sad thing was you HAD to do it after it spun a bearing in the first box and we put another free one in.
Helps alot when driving old cars with worn sycnros. (gearboxybits)
On a bike I find It helps smooth riding.

Did you ever think the synchro was worn ,because people dont do it

[johan]

I don't have any experience of a slipper clutch, but after watching the GP onboard videos, the down shifts are so quick there's no time for blipping, from what I can see. I guess the slippers smooths it out for them?

I try to blip when down shifting. It takes a lot of finesse to do it with a constant pressure on the front brake, I'm still practising it.

[homer]

its primarily goal " to blip " is so that theres less stress on the drive train at the gear change .

if you just throttle off and change down your stressing the drive system as theres just nothing then all of a sudden theres a lot of work .

its making the power or pressures more constant

[homer]

Keeps downshifts smoother/quicker, reduces tyre lock up . No syncos in the gearbox like on cars. same reason truckies blip thottle on down shifts in roadranger gearboxs

you have to blip in them
more of a big rev up almost , but thats because when you shift gear the transmission is slowing also as the engine does . you wont get a gear if you dont blip

some trucks have a clutch break
when you clutch all the way in it stops the trans turning .
very hard to get a gear again then .

[xgnr]

Yeah like them above... reducing the excess stress of a chunk down-shift and a possible lockup is my main focus... rightly or wrongly. maybe bad habits learned?

When I was driving trucks in the army thats wot they taught us (RL Bedfords mind you circa 60's) hardly a blip... more of a roar...crunch

Cheers

Stu

[Ripperjon]

I was one of the ones that voted for "don't know what you mean"

Didn't realise it meant doubling the clutch.

So, if you blip whilst braking, would you be using your index and middle on the lever and blipping with your thumb and third finger?

I think i've started doing it without realising it was a good technique whilst engine braking just cos it feels way smoother and sounds less painful for the bike.

[Spyke]

I haven't figured out how to do it properly while braking because that hand is already in use.

LMAO i was racing my bucket and coming into the first corner after the strait blipping the throttle and braking, my hand got stuck accelerating and i went strait into the tires. lesson learnt, don't stuff up blipping lol

[Ocean1]

Didn't realise it meant doubling the clutch.

It doesn't. Double clutching means just that, on a car/truck box you clutch and shift to neutral, release clutch and jump on it again whilst blipping the throttle to match revs.

Bit redundant on sequential shifting sickle boxes...

So, if you blip whilst braking, would you be using your index and middle on the lever and blipping with your thumb and third finger?

Sort of, I think I just roll my palm down and change, trying to keep the brake pressure even.

[Motu]

I've never considered not do it.It's just a matter of having a feel for the gearbox....having a mechanical conscience.Although sometimes I can go down a gear or two...or up,on the DT230 without bothering with blipping,or using the clutch for that matter - it doesn't matter so much with a 2 stroke.

[98tls]

Amongst other things did the SV lose the rather primitive (although works) slipper clutch the TL had?

[toebug]

Its very helpful on an older bike whose clucth is not so freash nor the gearbox!

[Subike]

didnt even even think it was a concern not to do it, or to do it
done it for years, stops rear wheel lock up on hard decelleration and put less pressure on the whole drive system.Braking not a problem either, guess it becomes a learnt skill the more you do it,
not alwys possible on some tight sections of road where there just is not the time and you are going quick, but then each to their own.
Pluss I love the back fire out the harris...sometimes flames , but thats the little boy in me playing