Blipping the throttle on downchanges?

[gruntygiggles]

It can be used in a number of circumstances, but whichever way you use it, same as with bike I guess, by keeping the revs high, you eliminate (if you do it properly) the chance of a surge in power by putting your right foot on the throttle a little too much. When you do this, it can mean too much power going to the driving wheels than the current speed requires and so you can skid in bad conditions.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

Nope, I was taught to do it whenever I downshift.

What if you have the throttle closed when you need to change down

Again, we were taught that we were supposed to slow the vehicle to the correct speed, then downshift, by which time you would be back on the throttle, obviously not accelerating but keeping constant revs. It's difficult to explain and i am probably explaining it wrong...

[yorkie_chris]

I see what you mean, can't really see advantage of it myself though given how incredibly lazy I am and how easy it is to just knock it down through the 'box coming up to a corner!

[flymo]

Originally Posted by lukemillar

Actually Ol' man Keith Code says change down, blip, then let the clutch out but at the end of the day, it pretty much simultaneously so is immaterial.

Or get a slipper clutch! I gave blipping ages ago on the track. Going into a turn after a straight and shifting from 6th > 2nd while hard on the brakes just means one less thing to think about

unless you ride in minitwins where you cant use slipper clutches

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

When in the car, I carry out what is known as "sustained rev gear changes". It particularly applies when downshifting. The principle of this is that when downshifting, say from 4th to 3rd, you are at 4k revs in 4th, but you want to be in third, lock your foot, don't lift off or press on the accelerator, keep it steady, engage clutch, (you notice the revs will jump up slightly) select gear, release clutch and the result should be a lovely, smooth gear change.

There is no need to be feathering the clutch on a downshift.

So do you brake, then downshift? instead of braking and downshifting?

As for blipping the throttle on the bike, some times i do, sometimes i dont, only recently worked out how to do it (but still fluff it up on occasion)

Yep, you should be at the correct road speed before changing gear..ie the system was "road positioning is correct, speed is correct, gear is 3 and I will now negotiate this left hand bend..." Position, speed, gear, manouvre...

[Richie]

I brake (rear very Light, no very very light as I now ride a V-Twin thou, but was still the same for the sv650) and two fingers on the front... Clutch in, Blip throttle (Not too Much!) Change down, feed the clutch back out in around an 1/8 of a second roughly, .. Smoothly hopefully, it's all fingers tips and toe tips... Sound nice and feels great.

but that's just the way I like to ride...

[unique] Please do not try to emulate me as I'm a one off :0) [/unique]

[yorkie_chris]

From full throttle... close throttle, brake progressively... swear a bit... see god... brake VERY HARD... knock it down 3 gears (clutchblipBOWWWW) very quickly ... wait for back tyre to hook back up and stop sliding... turn in ... open throttle
Big grin

[Shellywoozle]

I went out today after reading this thread last night and found I already do this without knowing about it.

Is it 'cause I do sustained revs in the car, something taught on advanced to make a smoother rode? Don't know but it's easy peasy