Blipping the throttle on downshifts?

[mister.koz]

I'm one of the 4% or so that said eh?

Just to make myself a real noob here, blipping is???

I am guessing its giving the engine some gas as to sync with the gearbox on a down-change??

A few of my 4 wheeled friends reckon that sort of thing is excellent in cars for keeping unnecessary load off the clutches and drive-train

[dipshit]

At this point, I would just like to say:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thank you. As you were.

So? Rather that than this...

[dipshit]

I am guessing its giving the engine some gas as to sync with the gearbox on a down-change??

It's matching engine rpm to what it is soon to be with the newly selected gear and rear wheel road speed.

http://www.sportrider.com/ride/RSS/1...tle/index.html

[YellowDog]

It's a common sense thing. I do it on cars as well as bikes.

[onearmedbandit]

At this point, I would just like to say:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thank you. As you were.

I take it that these tyres were not used in the making of this story?

And you should ask a friend of mine on a 998 with Öhlins and everything why he has a very hard time keeping up in the tight twisty stuff? A "lowly" SV can't be that shit then?

[koba]

Isn't blipping just about raising your revs as u change down when decelerating quickly, especially under brakes? and helping to avoid a rear lock-up if you're slowiing down urgently? Am only a newbie but I reckon engine braking and the right gear plus acceleration out of the corner is far safer than flying in quick as u can and trying to do 3 things at once... better left for the racetrack in my opinion

I agree, while learning it is better to simplify things but as riding becomes more natural and some tasks are being peformed more, or less, subconscienssklssa - without thinking - you will find it easier to devote a bit of concentration towards learning to blip.
I always found using the handbrake in autocross (Cars) to be too much for my brain, so I left it "on the list" to learn later, after geting smoother and faster from less going on I havn't found the need for the handbrake yet tho...

[jrandom]

So? Rather that than this...

You really think that that crash happened because someone used all their bike's available lean angle?



You just don't ride very well, dipshit, end of story. Don't pretend you're keeping something in reserve - if you've never scrubbed the edge of your tyres, you don't have a reserve.

Have you considered doing one or two trackdays? They won't magically turn you into a racer, but you'll at least learn how to use your bike's handling capabilities, and maybe your newfound skill will actually make you safer thereafter!



Come to think of it, the fact that you haven't learned to go around corners properly kinda explains your bitterness toward anyone who has enough bike control to do wheelies.

The trick is, dude, to exercise some humility and realise that you need to learn to ride your bike before you can start spouting off to others about how they should ride theirs.

Congratulations on getting a noisy exhaust and discovering the joys of throttle-blipping, though. It's always nice to see new riders having fun!

[Trudes]

Talking of chicken strips...... I had a couple of "fast" guys checking mine out the other day, and I said something about how shameful they were, and I was told I should have them as it means I'm leaning off the bike and not leaning the bike, also I have very little ground clearance a) it is a Hornet and b) it's been lowered, so I have big chicken strips but am also scraping the pegs everywhere...... just saying, but I'll now.

[dipshit]

I take it that these tyres were not used in the making of this story?

Why not? Good gearchange technique is always useful and has nothing to do with cornering speeds.

[dipshit]

You really think that that crash happened because someone used all their bike's available lean angle?

I wonder how many riders have killed themselves while solely trying to get rid of their chicken strips, just to keep the chicken strip police happy? Peer pressure is a killer on motorcycles if someone is stupid enough to get sucked in by it.

Have you considered doing one or two trackdays? They won't magically turn you into a racer, but you'll at least learn how to use your bike's handling capabilities, and maybe your newfound skill will actually make you safer thereafter!

I agree with you here. Have had my time on the tracks in the past. Wasn't just trackdays either. Used to compete in club racing, south island winter series and local street races and so on. Been thinking of doing some trackdays or something again soon to brush up a bit.

A downside for some people though, is that it can go to their heads and have them thinking they are "just it" and end up overconfident and riding much too fast on the roads.

The trick is, dude, to exercise some humility and realise that you need to learn to ride your bike before you can start spouting off to others about how they should ride theirs.

And just because you got your knee down at a trackday once and you like to wheelie your bike... doesn't automatically turn you into the best street rider to ever walk to face of the earth either.

Congratulations on getting a noisy exhaust and discovering the joys of throttle-blipping, though. It's always nice to see new riders having fun!

Unlike you, I ain't doing it just to sound cool. Had been doing it from when I first started riding. I couldn't imagine not riding this way.

[Badjelly]

You have to double clutch tractor gearboxes

I just stop the tractor to change gear.

[Badjelly]

Talking of chicken strips...... I had a couple of "fast" guys checking mine out the other day, and I said something about how shameful they were, and I was told I should have them as it means I'm leaning off the bike and not leaning the bike

That's it! I must memorise this: "I have chicken strips because I'm leaning off the bike. I have chicken strips because I'm leaning off the bike. I have chicken strips because I'm leaning off the bike." Yeah, I think I've got that down pat.

[jrandom]

I wonder how many riders have killed themselves while solely trying to get rid of their chicken strips...

They should have just borrowed YamahaR64Life's belt sander!

Peer pressure is a killer on motorcycles if someone is stupid enough to get sucked in by it.

Nowt at all wrong with chicken strips, unless the wearer thereof likes to prance around playing the riding tutor. Then they tend to make him look a bit silly.

As Mrs Kendog says, some bikes (like her lowered Hornet) just don't have the geometry to scrub the edge of their tyres. ER6s and SV650s are like that too, I believe.

Although I should probably point out that no man would ever have got such a supportive and comforting response to his chicken strips in public... motorcycling is such a sexist activity.

... just because you got your knee down at a trackday once and you like to wheelie your bike... doesn't automatically turn you into the best street rider to ever walk to face of the earth either.

How many times must I repeat to you that I'm quite a n00b? Heck, I haven't even had my full bike licence for a year yet. I wouldn't have been so chuffed about getting my knee down at that trackday unless that was the case, would I?

I make no claims to knowing shit about riding. I certainly don't try to butt in and tell others what they should be doing on their bikes (unless they're sanctimonious pricks who need to be taken down a peg, of course).

Unlike you, I ain't doing it just to sound cool.

So putting this thread up shortly after you got Yoshis on the SV was entirely coincidental?

Tee hee.

[johan]

Going around the Taupo track in fast pace and keeping your chicken is harder than going fast and loosing it eh.

Sound like a good Chinese takeaway:
Dip your chicken in a blip throttle sauce?

[ManDownUnder]

And just because you got your knee down at a trackday once and you like to wheelie your bike... doesn't automatically turn you into the best street rider to ever walk to face of the earth either.

Thank Christ for that... I've never heard him say he was. Far from it in fact.

JR's brilliant at taking the piss, but if you go back to re-read a lot of what he says I bet you'll find he's one of the first to put his hand up when he's wrong on anything, and actually learn the lesson. All too few in here seem to do that, and all he is asking you to do is follow his lead.

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