Can you get a slipper clutch for an SV?

That's pretty much it... except, where, and how much?

Ta.

Yes, JHS have them

heres the link http://www.jhsracing.co.uk/slipper_clutch.htm

would love one of these but really cant justify the price of that

just the thought of banging down two gears and just dumping the clutch without any lock ups / **** tango, using the excessive engine braking to allways keep the SV sweet in corners without ever touching a brake....

oh how I can dream

[Sid Squid]

There's one already fitted by Suzuki, it's on the 'bars next to your left hand.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

There's one already fitted by Suzuki, it's on the 'bars next to your left hand.

Choke.......horn..........indicator switch...............

Clutch?

Why would anybody want a slipper clutch on a road going bike? Seriously, I just can't see the point.


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Originally Posted by jonboy

Clutch?

Why would anybody want a slipper clutch on a road going bike? Seriously, I just can't see the point.


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Cause you can

Jonboy...It is odd that this question should be raised right now as I have once again been pondering the installation of same on my bike. I read a great quote on one of the slipper clutch manufacturers web sites that went something like...

" aids with speedy and illelegant downshifts!"

It cannot be denied that the slipper can help those riders who are not too precise in their method of gear changing but should not be viewed as mainly for that purpose.

A slipper clutch for me removes the possibility of rear wheel lock up and snaking when riding "briskly" and looking to scrub off speed more smoothly going in to bends. It allows you to get in to the correct gear to ensure good drive away from a bend also.

I have on many occasions found that due to my using the standard clutch "properly" I am having to slow down a lot earlier entering bends than other people,(linked to this is the fact I do not like to take a fist full of brake at the last second before dropping her in)

I do not mean to infer that they are only for people that like to ride quick, I do think they can help particularly the less experienced rider.

I do believe that in a couple of years,all bikes above a certain engine size will have a slipper clutch fitted as standard and will be viewed as an extra safety feature.

Extra benefit to most riders is that their clutch is in an oil bath and so no extra maintenance to consider.

Those of us that own odd bikes,( ) are required to regrease the slipper ramps and ball bearings around every 4'000 km.

*All of the above can be completely ignored as it is all my own personal opinion and as such probably offers no value to this discussion.* :P

[Sid Squid]

Now don't anybody think I'm referring to them personally, but two things occur to me:

If you're really riding so close to the edge that you haven't time to make correct gear selection on corner entry because your concentration is so taken up with the minute detail of extracting every last crumb of grip and speed, such that you might need to bang it down a couple of cogs, and let the slipper take up the slack so that when you come back into the throttle you get drive...oooh...perhaps 18" earlier than you otherwise would have done, then I respectfully suggest that you may be a liability to yourself and others on the road. There are far far greater considerations to which your concentration might usefully be given.

If your gear selction is poor, fix that, rather than trying to circumvent your failings with techy additions.

Generally speaking most people do not understand what it is that a slipper clutch does, it is not a device to prevent rear wheel lock ups when getting the wrong gear, (although that is an incidental function). What a slipper mechanism does is turn the clutch in to a one way drive device, the benefit of this is to allow the racing rider to select, before it is required, the necessary gear for corner exit, knowing that, as the drive only goes one way, there will be no greater engine braking than is truly unavoidable and that the drive will be restored a dab earlier that it might be by manual use of the clutch/throttle/gears.