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Clutchless gearshifts. Good? Bad? Indifferent?

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vk5zlr	Clutchless gearshifts. Good? Bad? Indifferent?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 370 (31-Jan-09 3:06 PM) I Live Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I've been watching a discussion on another forum about clutchless gearshifts, seems to be a general lack of consensus about how it does or does not affect the gearbox. My GTR1000 seems to handle clutchless upshifts particularly well, in fact with a bit of attention to detail, its possible to make it shift smoother without using the clutch than with the clutch. Has anyone else done much clutchless shifting on either of the GTR models ?? has anyone got any particular opinions for or against ? Cheers R.
Trevski		#1	[-]
Posts: 25 (31-Jan-09 3:16 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hello vk5zlr I have ridden for as long as I can remember doing clutchless gear changes and I took it as the normal thing when changing up the gears. The only thing I have been told is not clutchless change for the first 2000k or so to give the gear box a short time to run in. I did about 50,000 km on my ZZR1100 with out any thought of it causing a problem. Even while I had the ZZR on the track when changing at full tilt I had no problems. I intersted in the discussion as well Cheers Trevor 1400GTR Silver ( "The Sled" ) BAGSTER Tank Bag VENTURA AUTOCOM Garmin 760 RAM Mount Every day is a good day to ride. Just some days are better than others.
gavo57		#2	[-]
Posts: 68 (31-Jan-09 5:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm the same as Trevor, I always change up without the clutch. Have done since a prang in 1978 left me with dicky left wing, got used to doing clutchless changes and have never had tranmission problems.( he says and touches his head) Gav
Patrickp93		#3	[-]
Posts: 283 (31-Jan-09 8:09 PM) Still Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Clutchless allways but going though a bit of a retrain with the BMW at the moment as it is fairly tall in the gears and pretty slow reving also dry clutch and I have a few rough gear changes but I am getting better, clutch a bit when under load seems to work.
Sebastionbear		#4	[-]
Posts: 696 ( 1-Feb-09 7:00 AM) failure to launch Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	95% of the time clutchless up changes - tend to use the clutch in the city as I like to keep my hands very close to brake and clutch in case some caged wally removes my riding space! Cheers, Craig When was the last time you just got up and went for a drive? Not to anywhere not for anything, just for drive. You see, motorcyclists do it all the time, so why don't human beings? Jeremy Clarkson
SidecarDON		#5	[-]
Posts: 1036 ( 3-Feb-09 9:00 AM) 3 wheeler Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Likewise hardly ever use the clutch on a run long or short But always in built-up area's have had no ill effects on any of my bikes,Z1000A,Z1300, or even the two Vulcan's I had all good many a mile put down with no probs (Go Kwaka ) P.S I did have problems with a GKE 1100 Suzuki though Didn't like clutches shifts at all, Bent the den ton springs on the shift forks 0

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