When you are doing wheelies and you shift up while doing the wheelie do you use the clutch? Will it hurt the machine if you dont use the clutch?

 

The following is NOT recommended:

You should use the clutch between 1st and 2nd (to hopefully prevent slipping into neutral and overrevving), the rest of the gears you'll be all set if you can let off the gas a little then shift, doing it without the clutch and not letting off the gas is hard on the gears. does that make any sense??

 

As long as you don't misshift, you don't have to pull in the clutch or even let off the throttle to change gears. A clean shift this way is perfectly harmless since all the parts in the motor and trany are already moving and essentially "ready" for the transition. Now the catch... if you hit a momentary false neutral your quad could be in for a world of hurt. If you are on the power hard and experience an un-clutched hiccup you can wave by-by to the transmission. Of course, with a Blaster, the lower power and r's are to your advantage in such a mishap. The likelyhood of any real damage is much less with a botched powershift on a Blaster verses, say, a Yamaha R1. One thing working against you though is the famously lousy trans action on Yami's. (Don't chew me out for this comment, I am simply regurgitating what all the mags say.) I personally have a Quadzilla and I routinely hit false neutrals on it. Powershifts are out of the question on this thing.

 

Does this happen to your blaster?:
Say you are cruzin in 6th or 5th and you jam up the brakes hold the clutch and pull to a complete stop and then try to downshift into 1st, does it downshift easily without having to rock back and forth to get the gears to catch? With the 2 blasters I have ridden (I know, its sad) this was the way they both ran, sometimes I slip the clutch a little to get it to kick in, bad?? I am just wondering if alot of people have this problem? Besides when I do what I said above it never slips or have to rock it while riding... if that makes any sense?

 

Thanx guys I'll try that

 

Mine is the same way brokemybanshee...

 

Thanks, I was just curious... I wonder if you could install a "shift kit" like they have for sportbikes? Its just a little spring thingie... I think they make them for the banshee?? Ill have to look into it..

 

So see if I have this right:

I can shift on my warrior w/ out the cluth doing wheelies and I won't hurt the quad. Just make sure the shift goes all the way through and does not grind? I have been trying to shift for so long, but everytime I pulled in the cluth I would land, I can do it on blasters though.

 

Anyone? I want to shift doing wheelines but not ruin the engine!

 

You will **not** hurt you bike at all shifting while in a wheelie. Just apply pressure upwards on the shifter then barley let off the gas and it should shift very smoothly then get right back in the gas to keep the front end up. If anyone tells you something else they dont know what there talking about!

Mac