New Rider

This is where a slipper clutch is good. You just stamp it down through
the gears and drop the clutch out when you feel like it.

 

Call me a safety nazi if you like, but there's no way I'm riding in
slippers.

 

Paging Molly: here's your answer love, keep the gixer thou.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Big Dov amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Experience.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, BGN amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

You're such a fag.

 

Get a decent towel and you're all set for the end of the world.

 

He says that when he drops gears to quickly "the back wheel would lock
up" which is why I suggested the above. Please also note that the
person I was reply to was *not* the OP in this thread.

 

I suggest you question the person who I was replying to as he was
worried about locking up his wheel when changing down who also appears
to be a different person to the OP who had a completely different
query.

I am aware of this the "upright corner braking" strategy successfully
in my New Year's Crash.

Would you suggest that the poster would find it much more useful to go
straight into the back of the nearest car while being scared of
touching the brakes?

Paging TOG!

 

Quick, someone cook a high cholesterol and fat filled Full English so
that he may eat it while absorbing beer via an IV drip, chain smoking
and farting the national anthem!

I'm always very polite.

 

Big Dov wrote

Bummer innit eh. If only they made corners straighter we wouldn't have
to slow down at all. Ever.

Swot I do. I always know which particular wrong gear I am in for the
circumstances.

Keep the revs up. After you finish braking and changing down and just
before you let the clutch out for the last time to start cruising take a
tenth of a second to open the throttle a touch to get the revs up to
speed. Do it deliberately for a week and it will become automatic.

Trouble with experienced riders is that they do it on automatic and
haven't actually got much of a clue. Be careful of their advice.

 

Replace "chain smoking" with "chain smoking while going around the
house all day wearing a t-shirt, shorts, long flowing dressing gown
and holding a G&T with two ice."

 

And pork pies, obviously.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

I don't really understand this "counting gears" concept. I don't often
have much of a clue which gear I'm in, other than that it's the one I
judge to be correct for the speed I'm going.

On accelerating I keep changing up until I run out of gears (or the
funky little "O/D" caption lights up on the BlingMobile's dash), and on
decelerating I keep changing down until I run out of gears, or the green
light flashes briefly to let me know I just went through neutral.

If the engine speed's right for a given corner, WGAF whether you're in
third or fourth?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

You, lack of understanding, concepts. Usual fare then?

I have found over the years that if the gears need changing it is
because the speed is changing also and a half of a tenth of a second
later needs doing again. Knowing where you are starting from is half
the battle of being right when you get where you think you are going
imho.

You look at the dash while you are setting yourself up for a bend?

I do. I want to be in top and have had it nailed for the last half
hour.

 

This is what I do.

Anal.

 

Nobody passes a CBT.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

Up yours, granddad.

Eh? What *are* you wibbling on about, you daft fossil?

"Peripheral Vision" old boy. Something you probably had in your youth.
Assuming vision had evolved by then.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

You say that you choose the correct gear for the speed you are doing. In
my world the need to change gear happens at a time when speed is a
variable. Sometimes that need is more urgent than others.

At times like that I find it a bonus to know what gear I am in so that
the speed of the world, according to my peripheral vision, can be
matched with an appropriate amount of open throttle to make it faster
again as quick as it will happen.

Wasting your time on trivia I calls it.

 

As far as I remember the thread you introduced the 'high revs
downchange' which is why I'm questioning you.

If he has to brake to avoid a car when he's cornering at this time of
year he's most likely going to come off. I'd suggest he tried a little
more forward observation.

 

You're wrong.

That's very responsible of you. Thank you for your kind thoughts.

Oh, and do learn to snip replies.