changing gear

[kevsky]

injured my left thumb and finding it hard to ghange gear.absolute agony sometimes.coming back from work today in the pi**in rain and was just letting throttle off and changing without using clutch...is this ok to do or can it cause untold damage...any advise would be helpfull....thanks ... kevsky...

[StumpyFingers]

I sometimes do the changes without the clutch and have had no problems.
Although it may cause the chain to stretch quicker.

[winxp-master]

I'm no technial wizard by any means so i have to use common sense so what i would say is, if you didn't need to use the clutch then why is it there?

[Lumiya]

There's a few main dangers

1# you'll lose control/traction especially on slippery surfaces as the tension on the drive suddenly changes
2# you'll strip the clutch and/or break the chain due to the same forces causing #1
3# You could chip the teeth off the gears/dogs as you won;t give the gearbox time to synchronize

[Mervinh]

balance the revs correctly get a smooth change and it will not do too much harm, lots of people do clutchless changes, especially useful if your clutch cable is dodgy,

[winxp-master]

especially useful if your clutch cable is dodgy,

Fix the cable, do the correct gear change

[angelo]

If you are going to have long term problems fit a racing quick shifter - it works on the gear lever - as you start to lift it kills the engine an so no load snick into gear and when you release on comes the engine - most racers use them for up shifts - big buck though!

[grazie]

Adjusting clutch so biting point is closer.
Rest hand on bars and not grip.
Pull off in second and go up and down two gears using full rev range.
Lend a Cub C90.
Don't ride if you can't focus due to pain.
Clutchless up changes better then down ones.

erm.......

[Mervinh]

Fix the cable, do the correct gear change

only as a get ya home i mean

[winxp-master]

ahh i'll let you off then