What do you guys do when when coming down extremely steep and technical grade and the bike starts sliding b/c the engine brake is holding it back too much??? Without having a clutch, the only thing I’ve been able to figure out is using the throttle but that can cause some hairy situations on technical grades.
On a motorcycle or manual transmission vehicle, I use a combination of the brakes and the clutch to control slides. We don’t have that capability on these machines. With my limited understanding, this would be a very good argument for leaving the springs and sleeves out of the oneway clutch…not to mention 4 less parts that can fail on you.
On the converse side of this equation, I’m wondering what this will do to the handling in fast acceleration/braking situations??? In the town I live in, I can hit 65 mph and come back to a stop again between stop signs with our city blocks. I’m wondering if having less engine braking is going to affect that…or if you can get the same amount of braking, just using the bakes.?.? I use the above scenario b/c it’s an easy one to illustrate. I ride fast and hard…just wondering if this is going to to affect how hard I can ride.?.?
I understand I’ll probably be going through brake pads faster…but that’s cheaper than replacing the bearings, springs, sleeves, retaining clips and belt every 100 hours b/c of clutch failure.
