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How the hell can it be called cheating if it's a development?
It's like saying anyone with upside down forks was cheating when they first came out. Or Disc brakes.
A bike under rapid decceleration is more stable when fitted with one in most instances. I love the bastards, although I'm reluctant to not cover the rear brake doing wheelies with one fitted.
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They don't work like that, it's not like a scooters 'centrifugal clutch'. It should not effect acceleration at all. It was probably just plain slipping.
It is a misconception that a slipper clutch means you cannot lock up that back wheel on a downshift. You sure can, I can do it on my gsxr and rvf. It just helps you a little if you don't use enough clutch when you should have. Any lockup there is, it is usually over very quickly with a slipper clutch too.
I know it has changed the way I ride, I get on some other bike and I know at some point I am going to go down a gear clutchless carrying a few revs too many and I'll lock up the back wheel.
Anyway, it's not cheating because everyone else is going to run one too.
I read in one of my magazines here that endurance racing bikes have the slipper removed because they encourage laziness in the rider (not matching revs on a downshift) and the clutch wears too quickly.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Yes I know its progress and it's a great feature.
Slipper clutches seemed to literally feel like a switch - I habitually blip the throttle on every downchange at any speed. But with a slipper clutch it's like pushing a button - there is zero mechanical feedback.
However while riding (the usual rides and trackdays) my previous 04 636 with an old fashioned clutch I used to always have to be very alert to prevent locking the back up always having to concentrate on this. Which in turn I believe forced me to become a lot smoother with my engine braking or risk messing up the corner.
Therefore should someone looking at a thou 1st get one without a slipper clutch get used to taking it flat out (until he gets into the fast group at trackdays) then buy another big bike with a slipper clutch as he has now gained slightly better downshifting and engine braking ability????????
Following on from a rider education perspective, and now looking at it as purchasing criteria, if slipper clutches are the shiz then in the thou market theres the 04+ ZX10 and the 05+ gixxer. (cheapest slipper clutch thous)
But if they really arent that big a deal one can buy an older thou and save the cash for more trackdays. What do guys reckon?
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