I'm a fairly green rider and was whining to a friend (who rides) about what a slow shifter I am and how it screws me up coming into a turn too fast and I need to brake and downshift before the turn. So he says "you use the clutch? I never use my clutch except for 1st gear".
So feeling it out today, upshifting any gear above 2 without the clutch feels amazing. I've been racing cars for years and its SO weird shifting without the clutch but it just rev matches so well on an upshift, felt great. Then I kind of attempted downshifting. Didnt feel like the bike wanted to do it so I ended my experimenting and poked around here. Found some year old posts where half of everyone always uses the clutch, the other half sometimes wont use it on an upshift, and a few people claiming to downshift clutchless as well.
I know nothing feels better in a car like a perfect rev blip while downshifting, but thats using a clutch. How do you clutchlessly downshift it on a bike? Or is that only on my more racey bike tranny with straighter cut gears and the Kat tranny isnt good for it?
So feeling it out today, upshifting any gear above 2 without the clutch feels amazing. I've been racing cars for years and its SO weird shifting without the clutch but it just rev matches so well on an upshift, felt great. Then I kind of attempted downshifting. Didnt feel like the bike wanted to do it so I ended my experimenting and poked around here. Found some year old posts where half of everyone always uses the clutch, the other half sometimes wont use it on an upshift, and a few people claiming to downshift clutchless as well.
I know nothing feels better in a car like a perfect rev blip while downshifting, but thats using a clutch. How do you clutchlessly downshift it on a bike? Or is that only on my more racey bike tranny with straighter cut gears and the Kat tranny isnt good for it?
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