Blipping the throttle

Originally Posted by LK-SV

No, if you are gental, relaxed and careful enough with the clutch I don't find it neccessary ....

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Iwent on one of those Bikesafe things, blipping down to the village hall in the middle of nowhere, and the copper running it made some point about how bad it was - the manual says to blip! I only do it for the sake of the noise now, if you don't match the revs than it makes everything un-necessarily shonky - but when you get it right it's a massive ego extension!

[BanannaMan]

All the time.
Rev match every downshift without even thinking about it now.
It's just how to ride the SV.

Yep.

[STRAMASHER]

Thought I would be a "sometimes". Thought I may be a non-blipper especially when not Schwantzing into corners or arriving at the start line (traffic lights).

Riding in this fine morn, no I'm a "All The Time".

All the time, to match the revs on the downshift. Ok you don't exactly 'match' them but you can get pretty close and it makes the shift a lot, lot smoother. The dog teeth just go together much more smoothly when they're rotating at a similar speed rather than several hundred (or thousand) rpm apart.

I learnt to do it when learning to drive a car. It's just smoother and easier on all the internal components - I think it's known as 'mechanical sympathy'. Believe the technique itself dates from gearboxes without syncromesh, when you had to double-clutch and rev-match on each change - or it simply wouldn't go in. I used to have a '72 Triumph Spitfire as a weekend car, and that had no synchro on 1st gear - so you had to double-clutch and rev-match when you went down into 1st.

Always blip the throttle to match revs to speed, less wear and tear on the bike and safer because you're less likely to lock the rear wheel.

[appollo1]

same as most to match the revs and stop the rear locking up.

also makes a great sound with a decent can on the bike.

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

All the time.
Rev match every downshift without even thinking about it now.
It's just how to ride the SV.

I agree ......... but lets get it clear ....

There is raising the revs slightly to match the gearchange .... which is good ...

and then there is blipping the revs really high, and trying to catch the revs at the right level when they are falling ....... which is just about making you feel like like a driving god ..... and in the other thread .... should be another 20% worth of chav

[BanannaMan]

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I thought I understood LK-SV's post... the difference between those who blip for all of the right reasons and the chavs (whatever that means - I am still guessing) who blip to make a lot of noise or some other reason known only to them, like the kid who pulls up to a set of traffic lights after working the gears at 10,000 rpm and looks over as if to say "look how clever I am". I look over, shake my head then proceed to ignore them as I mutter some derogatory comment under my breath about the phallic shape of their head.