09-09-13, 01:22 PM
It's not the locking up the rear wheel that I meant when I said you shoudn't block change, as in an IL4 engine you would have to really cock up and drop a lot of gears on pretty much a closed throttle to lock the wheel up - although of course you could do what my mate did in a bit of a headfit once on a trackday - forgot which shift pattern he had, was pretty close to the rev limiter, and accidentaly dropped a gear instead of going up a gear! Did not end up so well for him haha.
The reason though is that as DeadEye said in a sequential gearbox you need to make sure the gears all mesh on the way up and down the box - the only way you can do that is to let the clutch out a bit (not neccessarily all the way, just enough for you to know that the gear has engaged) before you then drop another gear. By all means block shift if you don't fancy replacing your clutch plates a bit sooner, but be warned that a set of clutch plates is both a hell of a lot quicker and easier to replace in a bike than stripped gears!
The reason though is that as DeadEye said in a sequential gearbox you need to make sure the gears all mesh on the way up and down the box - the only way you can do that is to let the clutch out a bit (not neccessarily all the way, just enough for you to know that the gear has engaged) before you then drop another gear. By all means block shift if you don't fancy replacing your clutch plates a bit sooner, but be warned that a set of clutch plates is both a hell of a lot quicker and easier to replace in a bike than stripped gears!