Motorcycling culture is growing more and more as years passed. Every rider should posses the art of riding safely out there on freeways and inside the city. To feel your motorbike's raw power, you can take it to the nearby track and feel it. Every talented and blooming riders should be aware of the term rev matching for the sake of engine's life and for the safety purposes. In the last post about quickshifters, we've seen about auto blippers which is very much helpful in downshifting gears. But, in motorbikes without auto blippers, we have to manually blip the throttle. Today in this post, let's see why we have to blip the throttle and about rev matching.
What does it mean?
It is a technique used to downshift the gears in motorbike. It refers to the technique where the rider momentarily blips the throttle to increase the engine's speed to match the road speed while downshifting the gears. Simply saying as a layman, it is the technique of matching engine's speed with the transmission speed while downshifting. Generally, when you downshift the gears in your motorbike, engine's RPM will increase as you know. If you tend to shift down the gears without rev matching continuously, it may lead you to lose control of your motorbike and results in decreased engine life.
Imagine you are entering a corner with your motorbike at high speed. What you'll do is hold the clutch lever and downshift. As we know, engine's RPM will increase. If you don't blip the throttle while downshifting, you may lose the balance of your motorbike or you can't able to stabilize your bike in that situation. Not all of us are visiting tracks most often where we tend do do freeway rides and daily commutes. But, downshifting without rev matching also have effects when you ride in freeways as well as in your daily commutes.
Failing to rev match your engine's RPM will also create more wear and tear in your engine's internal components thereby decreasing its life. Most of us rev match to reduce the amount of engine braking and to avoid the locking of rear wheel. This is obtained by releasing the clutch lever slowly. Even though it prevents the locking of rear wheel, it creates high unnecessary wear in clutch plates. In tracks, this also makes the rider to exit the corner slowly which really matters. So, everyone should adapt to the rev matching technique as it maintains the life of the engine as well as for our safety.
So, how to do it?
It requires 3 operations to be done simultaneously without a overlap for the correct function. When you need to downshift, you will pull the clutch lever and downshift the gear you require and just you have to blip or slightly raise the throttle before leaving the clutch lever. By doing this, speed of the engine and wheel that is the transmission system will be synced perfectly thereby preventing any unwanted wheel lock. Everything will not be acquired in the first try itself. Doing it in a right way will take some time and practice. Every time when you downshift, if you practice to match the engine rev, surely it'll become your habit and it'll be a advantage to you and your motorbike.
Benefits
• Prevent the locking of rear wheel
• Prevents lurching of engine while changing the gear
• Provides greater stability
• Prevents high amount of stress going through the drivetrain
• Reduce engine braking
What does it mean?
It is a technique used to downshift the gears in motorbike. It refers to the technique where the rider momentarily blips the throttle to increase the engine's speed to match the road speed while downshifting the gears. Simply saying as a layman, it is the technique of matching engine's speed with the transmission speed while downshifting. Generally, when you downshift the gears in your motorbike, engine's RPM will increase as you know. If you tend to shift down the gears without rev matching continuously, it may lead you to lose control of your motorbike and results in decreased engine life.
Imagine you are entering a corner with your motorbike at high speed. What you'll do is hold the clutch lever and downshift. As we know, engine's RPM will increase. If you don't blip the throttle while downshifting, you may lose the balance of your motorbike or you can't able to stabilize your bike in that situation. Not all of us are visiting tracks most often where we tend do do freeway rides and daily commutes. But, downshifting without rev matching also have effects when you ride in freeways as well as in your daily commutes.
Failing to rev match your engine's RPM will also create more wear and tear in your engine's internal components thereby decreasing its life. Most of us rev match to reduce the amount of engine braking and to avoid the locking of rear wheel. This is obtained by releasing the clutch lever slowly. Even though it prevents the locking of rear wheel, it creates high unnecessary wear in clutch plates. In tracks, this also makes the rider to exit the corner slowly which really matters. So, everyone should adapt to the rev matching technique as it maintains the life of the engine as well as for our safety.
So, how to do it?
It requires 3 operations to be done simultaneously without a overlap for the correct function. When you need to downshift, you will pull the clutch lever and downshift the gear you require and just you have to blip or slightly raise the throttle before leaving the clutch lever. By doing this, speed of the engine and wheel that is the transmission system will be synced perfectly thereby preventing any unwanted wheel lock. Everything will not be acquired in the first try itself. Doing it in a right way will take some time and practice. Every time when you downshift, if you practice to match the engine rev, surely it'll become your habit and it'll be a advantage to you and your motorbike.
Benefits
• Prevent the locking of rear wheel
• Prevents lurching of engine while changing the gear
• Provides greater stability
• Prevents high amount of stress going through the drivetrain
• Reduce engine braking
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