Flamin_Squirrel wrote:
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Wrong. If you can change down a gear without blipping and not get the back wheel sliding, the revs would have to be sufficiently low.
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It is as if you imagine that this method simply involves the knocking down of gears and the dumping of the clutch? This is not at all what is suggested.Perhaps it is the fact that this is a method that many of us are just not familiar with?
There should be no sliding of the rear wheel as speed is being removed by the brakes so that when the clutch is released after each gear change the engine does add to the braking overall but not in a destabilising manner.
mattSV wrote:
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Hmmm, not sure about that - I thought that they CONTROL engine braking, rather than remove it.
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Indeed you are correct Matt,they avoid the chances of the rear wheel sliding by mismatched engine speed/road speed. The drive is not reintroduced to the rear wheel until the situation is back to "engine driving the wheel" as opposed to the reverse of this.
It can be argued that a slipper clutch covers up for bad technique from riders as well as the benefit of being able to do multiple down shifts.
