K98shooter
New Member
Good Evening folks,
I just joined this site and thank you for reading my first post! Let me introduce myself in few words before I go to my question: I am a middle age approaching man who learned to ride bike last fall (wish I knew what I was missing all these years, but anyway…) I am currently happy and proud owner of BMW F650CS, a single cylinder thumper. I just wanted to practice when I bought it and meanwhile identified my priorities. I know more or less what my next bike should be. I definitely want upright riding position, reliability, good torque/reasonable power and good fuel economy, as I commute a lot. F650CS and terrific bike but as I am commuting lot, vibration is an issue at highway speeds. So Honda nc700 came up high on my list, along with Suzuki V-strom and Kawasaki Versys. I sat on all three bikes and liked all three. All right, my question is actually addressed to dual clutch transmission-equipped bike owners: I am considering DCT version; I like the concept of DCT, short lag between shifts compared to manual tranny, but I am wondering how do you use DCT tranny in stop-n-go city riding situation. I use lot of “friction zone” to smooth acceleration/deceleration, as opposed to twist on/off and gear shift, as it makes bike less “jerky”. So how do you deal with this without being able to clutch in/out? Also, I use downshift for deceleration, before going into curve and sometimes inside curve, if I feel uncomfortable with stability. Surely no need to use brake to decelerate. How do you decelerate with DCT? Do you just roll off throttle and it downshifts Sorry for long post; I think on highway this is non-issue, but I am concerned in town riding situation I spent hours going through this forum but these questions remain.
I just joined this site and thank you for reading my first post! Let me introduce myself in few words before I go to my question: I am a middle age approaching man who learned to ride bike last fall (wish I knew what I was missing all these years, but anyway…) I am currently happy and proud owner of BMW F650CS, a single cylinder thumper. I just wanted to practice when I bought it and meanwhile identified my priorities. I know more or less what my next bike should be. I definitely want upright riding position, reliability, good torque/reasonable power and good fuel economy, as I commute a lot. F650CS and terrific bike but as I am commuting lot, vibration is an issue at highway speeds. So Honda nc700 came up high on my list, along with Suzuki V-strom and Kawasaki Versys. I sat on all three bikes and liked all three. All right, my question is actually addressed to dual clutch transmission-equipped bike owners: I am considering DCT version; I like the concept of DCT, short lag between shifts compared to manual tranny, but I am wondering how do you use DCT tranny in stop-n-go city riding situation. I use lot of “friction zone” to smooth acceleration/deceleration, as opposed to twist on/off and gear shift, as it makes bike less “jerky”. So how do you deal with this without being able to clutch in/out? Also, I use downshift for deceleration, before going into curve and sometimes inside curve, if I feel uncomfortable with stability. Surely no need to use brake to decelerate. How do you decelerate with DCT? Do you just roll off throttle and it downshifts Sorry for long post; I think on highway this is non-issue, but I am concerned in town riding situation I spent hours going through this forum but these questions remain.