Ive been riding for just over a year now, through all weather and all road conditions on me Fizzer, clocked up 10k miles in 11 months, and I seem to have picked up a habit I wanted to talk about.
When pulling away from lights or from slow corners, Ive got into the habit of cranking up the revs and feeding in the power with the clutch. I find its a much smoother getaway and offers more control (in the wet in particular) and am aware of the cough risk of weelie or loss of traction on the rear tyre…
Should I be trying to correct this and smoothing the power feed in with the throttle twist more? Is it likely to wreck my clutch or am I doint the right thing?
Yous advice is welcomed with a big handfull of revs! VrooooOOOOM!
Pretty much the technique I use when wanting a quick getaway, and it does me fine, did loads on a Run What Ya Brung Drag strip challenge and the clutch seems to be fine 8k miles later…
But I only use it when I need to, which isnt that often, fast enough away from cars anyways.
Everyone has a different preference. I don’t use much clutch, only if I want to get off the line very quickly, though it depends on the power of your engine. My bike has a lot of torque so I don’t need to use the clutch much, I can just power on the throttle progressively but quickly (to avoid slides or wheelies).
Fit that power commander dude, makes it so much smoother.
I only slip the clutch on my fazer when getting away from the lights, where corners are concerned I like to just crank it on and feel for grip through the pegs, I like it if the back gets a bit loose or the front starts to pick up, or if I’m lucky both. I find I do need to be lively on the gears to keep it in the power range.
I ride my fazer everyday and it’s like a toy compared to my TL. It is fun though, handles well and has enough go to keep me on my toes.
Try a nice smooooooth 4cyl bike Chunks, will do you the world of good ;)
I think you’d probably like the kind of bike I’m looking for, something like a CB1300 or a naked busa. You should have seen grim pulling away last night, I was wringing the neck of my 600, tucked down and he was 2 up, sat upright and still pulled away, it’s not funny :ermm:
I find I use the clutch far more than I ever used to years back with carb bikes particularly in town.
My bike a 650 twin and theres lots of torque and engine braking so if I dont pull the clutch alot its very kangaroo like. I think this is because the fuel injection is either on our off so I just cant get it smooth on throttle only where you are slowing down and speeding up in traffic.
You shouldn’t need to, but as the manufacturers can’t be bothered to sort out ignition and timing properly the only thing to do is fit a power commander. This will sort out fuelling and power dilevery to suit what you need. You can program it to rev higher, or produce more power at the bottom end. Yes they are not cheap (fortunately my bike came with one), it is a bit lumpy in first but I hook second quickly and this is nice an smooth through town.
Buy a second hand Daytona 955, use the torque not the clutch, incontinence pads will help smooth your transition to a real bike but afte a while you`ll sort out a range of accesable and friendly pit stops.
I say it’s more down to what bike you got to how much you use the clutch, pulling off at 10000rpm and ripping the hell out of the clutch not going to do it a lot of good.
I think If I did that on the blade I be on my backside but to get away quick i slip it to about 3500rpm, Then the rest of the work trying to keep the front wheel down.
Going in bends fast and trying to get the right gear for the way out i also use the clutch on this part, as I don’t like down gearing on the way out to easy to get it wrong.
I also think if it ok for Rossie then its ok for us
Most bikes will be ok slipping the clutch which is why they are in oil this allows them to be slipped and why the ducattis have so much trouble they have dry clutches you are ok slipping the clutch for some time as they are deisgned to do so just dont be doing it a silly revs.
I guess perhaps I souldnt be doing it all the bl0ody time 
