EAR rideout from Red Lodge to Perry

It's not wrong at all but blipping the throttle smoothens the whole process out especially at higher rpm. What blipping consists of is when you go to change down, pull the clutch in, change down, give the throttle a little tweak (blip) and then let the clutch out.

What happens when you change down normally is when you pull the clutch in it starts to slow down. For example if you change down at 5000 rpm by the time you've pulled the clutch in and changed down the clutch might only be doing 4000 rpm and your engine will be doing 6000 rpm. When you let the clutch out it then has to play catch up with the engine. If you give the throttle a little blip to raise the revs during the change down process the clutch doesn't have to play catch up and makes it a smoother process.

But I could be talking rubbish, the above is the way I've interpretated what blipping is.

The other 2 videos and a little extra one are all now up:

http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB682568DF0D3C85

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

what's blipping? I just throttle off, clutch in, gear change, release clutch smoothly as poss - isnt that correct? or having I been doing it all wrong all these years?

Started a new thread discussing this very issue ArtyLady

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=111176

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

Started a new thread discussing this very issue ArtyLady

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=111176

Thanks Pete