Automatic Gear Change.

You know Ive put them on Dragbikes and on one Drag Race Banshee for the street but never on any mx . might be cool concept.

Look at the old Husky Auto's - up and and down shift. I thought they were great, however unperfected.

Honda is using an automotive type auto tranny in their quads already.

 

Steve

You'd need a lot more than 50 shifts for a moto. Imagine the start is 3 and every straight (nearly) on an outdoor style track takes you from 2nd to 4th so our local track quickly guesstimated would be:

I'm guessing 15-16 upshifts on a 250 per lap and it's just over 2.5 minute lap times. So if that were a 6 lap race with 15 shifts per lap we're looking at 90 upshifts per moto.

That huge aluminum thing on the back of every bike... the swingarm, looks a lot like an air tank to me! LOL Hey maybe we can pretend we're running really large BOOST bottles again and just make them compressed air - I'm joking here. I actually know people that want to do this to their bikes for various reasons. One was a guy that only has one leg, the other is a prothesis.

I'm still curious about the auto clutches out right now. I want to see a full on race test on a YZ250F and a 450 - not a DR. This would give me an idea of how well they work for MX. I know people that would dig that thing if it worked.

MP

From what I've been reading on other forums, most MX racers don't use the clutch to upshift or downshift much anyway. Except for starting out of course.

I had heard of this before, but never tried it myself. I've always been afraid of tearing out the tranny.

Are any of you guys shifting gears without using the clutch?

Originally posted by lakota

Are any of you guys shifting gears without using the clutch?

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All the time.

 

Steve 

i barely use the clutch except when i brake