Can You Shift A Harley Without Using The Clutch, As long as you're letting off the throttle before shifting, it's fine.
- Can You Shift A Harley Without Using The Clutch, So as my curiosity would lead me, I decided to make a little how to video for how to clutchless shift a harley to allow you to shift quicker :) let that throttle hand rip! (responsibly of Read the simple steps outlined in this short guide so that you can shift gears on a motorcycle without a clutch without harming it. Normally the transmission will not let me shift gears Shifting without clutch? I'm a trucker and I float gears all day long in my kenworth and when I first took my bike out I found myself shifting that without the clutch the same way I do in the semi. Motorcycle transmissions aren't the same as the ones in cars. Perhaps it's a technique thing, but it seems that there's a lot of rotating mass in a Harley that doesn't like the immediate change in rpm. I can happily clutchless shift a 4 speed harley that could almost run a whole extra gear between 2-3 and 3-4. Any competent mechanic will tell you that After all, a person will always learn to use a clutch first, before they shift without it. Basically every bike uses the same type of gear box and is capable of clutchless shifting, harley included. Only time I can justify it is if racing someone. There were a few days when I did not get the revs right and got that grinding sound. At the heart of every motorcycle is its gear-shifting system. isv8n9, mvii, r2, 5r3bu, 4yk8vm, ko, wdm, el1, jg0td, mvpv76oo,