07-12-2016, 12:43 AM
bullocks
RPM alone has nothing to do with it as far as my experience tells me.
I've even had more smooth shifts from 1st to 2nd in lower rpm's than in the higher rpm's.
If I hunt the bike into the red zone in first gear, and I want to go in 2nd gear, its all from silky smooth, I even have to be aggressive in the manner I shift into second gear, otherwise it will not even click into second gear!
But like you say, the clutch etc are more determent factors for the smoothness from 1st to 2nd.
I even find the way you use your foot to engage a gear is very important.
Most of the time, you only have to touch the footshift and simply push it into gear, nothing more, that's how smooth the gearbox is.
But not always, from 1st to second, especially in very high rpm's you really have to hit the footshift to engage second gear.
From time to time even going into 1st gear requires a little more effort than normal.
I did experience some silky smooth transitions from 1st to 2nd just by pushing the shifter like with all other gears...but I still don't know why or in what circumstances that is.
RPM definitely is a factor, but not the only one.
The way you use the Clutch is also a factor and I believe the temperature of the gearbox is a factor as well.
But its definitely no rule that the 1st to 2nd is smooth or pretty smooth above 5000 RPM, in the contrary.
If so, its due to more than RPM's alone.
RPM alone has nothing to do with it as far as my experience tells me.
I've even had more smooth shifts from 1st to 2nd in lower rpm's than in the higher rpm's.
If I hunt the bike into the red zone in first gear, and I want to go in 2nd gear, its all from silky smooth, I even have to be aggressive in the manner I shift into second gear, otherwise it will not even click into second gear!
But like you say, the clutch etc are more determent factors for the smoothness from 1st to 2nd.
I even find the way you use your foot to engage a gear is very important.
Most of the time, you only have to touch the footshift and simply push it into gear, nothing more, that's how smooth the gearbox is.
But not always, from 1st to second, especially in very high rpm's you really have to hit the footshift to engage second gear.
From time to time even going into 1st gear requires a little more effort than normal.
I did experience some silky smooth transitions from 1st to 2nd just by pushing the shifter like with all other gears...but I still don't know why or in what circumstances that is.
RPM definitely is a factor, but not the only one.
The way you use the Clutch is also a factor and I believe the temperature of the gearbox is a factor as well.
But its definitely no rule that the 1st to 2nd is smooth or pretty smooth above 5000 RPM, in the contrary.
If so, its due to more than RPM's alone.