Whats the group opinion of clutchless up shifts?

[GIGOLO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AJXsVj-PMg&feature=player_embedded

Anybody who has had a clutch go out on them has learned that if you match revs to wheel speed to can change gears easily.  I drove home from Chicago to Naperville in my piece of shit truck with no clutch.  Running starts for first and then the rest just click in.  Whats with the white shit on his face is he exfoliating?

so what the process of making a smooth clutchless up shift? I assume, off the throttle, shift,  and back on the throttle?

I think it was a class I was taking on constant mesh transmissions, which most bikes have, that said you actually dont have to get completely off throttle.  Just enough to unload the trans. 

[Mouse]

I think it was a class I was taking on constant mesh transmissions, which most bikes have, that said you actually dont have to get completely off throttle.  Just enough to unload the trans. 

Yeah, what he said.

Pre-load your shift lever.
Then roll slightly off your throttle. It will pop into the next gear. Then roll back on - all in 1 quick moment.

Then go get a quick shifter for your dynojet or whatever and let the computer do all the on/off for ya  :)

[Ducmarc]

i don't really think you ever get completely off the throttle anyway. everytime i try up shifting with a clutch it seems to muck things up . i do wonder if i'm the only fat guy that fans the clutch out of the corner on a 125  that's my bad habit from mx days

[tzracer]

i do wonder if i'm the only fat guy that fans the clutch out of the corner on a 125  that's my bad habit from mx days

No you are not, I occationally heard it while passing people.

[123user]

On most bikes I've ridden its almost always faster to forgo the clutch.  On my current ride, a ducati 1000ss, the front gets very upset (and I get very scared) without a little clutch action.

I don't think you should think of the clutch as an all or nothing sort of thing.  Just a little disengagement is usually enough to ease the violence of the change-up.