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lunchmeat wrote:If I've got to set up for a turn and I'm going downhill, braking with the clutch in usually results in not-so-smooth timing, because there's that instant when you let off the brakes that you start accelerating, but you've got to lean and let the clutch out and roll on the throttle...I'd rather have the engine behind me keeping me at a speed I control, rather than gravity.

I guess the issue is more with downhill turns than anything else. It applies to regular turns, but downhill is where it really hurts.

Why do you let off the brakes before you let off the clutch? You have two hands and two feet right? Also, if you rev match and ease out the clutch slowly there will be no jerk. Easing out the clutch slowly will get rid of the jerk by itself but adding the throttle will make it faster


Either way you should have all your breaking and shifting done BEFORE the turn. You're suspension can bounce around all it likes in a straight line but you want it to be nice and settled by the time you press to initiate your turn

Hmm...you're right.

Practice is in order.

So riding around yesterday on backroads with the speed between 25-55 there was a lot of downshifting for traffic and turns. I rarely tried to rev match when downshifting for braking, it was mostly just clutch manipulation while I was on the brakes already and no throttle. You might be focusing too much effort on rev matching rather than easing the clutch out appropriately. Some food for thought anyway.

Been riding and I realize that rev matching is only really important going from 3rd to 2nd. Anything higher and the ratios are closer, so it's not a huge deal. I've been working on braking while changing to 2nd for a turn and it's been working a little better, I think.

Just thought I'd share.