RE: [ST] Slipper clutch

[peter.chittum@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On the downside, should you ever have a dead battery, the slipper clutch
makes it close to impossible to push start a bike (as a colleague of mine
with an Aprillia found out recently). Frankly, I'd rather have that option
available should I ever be in that situation. 

Peter Chittum
'01 BRG ST
San Jose, CA, USA 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Goldston [mailto:jgoldston@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:57 AM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ST] Slipper clutch
> 
> 
> I appreciate you folks being gentle.  No one's cursed me yet. 
> :)  I have a
> beating coming for doing that (and will if my spousal unit 
> ever finds out)
> and could have caused serious injury to someone else if they had been
> occupying the same space at the same time.
> 
> Yes, my understanding is that a slipper clutches is to 
> clutches as ABS are
> to brakes.  (No, I don't care for ABS.)  You might want to 
> call a slipper
> clutch "The Idiot's Guide to Downshifting." :)  Racers can 
> use it in ways
> that us mortals can't.  Still, regular people can find 
> functional uses for
> them, too.  No, I  almost certainly won't get one, bit doing 
> the idiot thing
> sure made me wish I had one installed just that once.
> 
> I rode an Aprilia Tuono at the Honda Hoot a few weeks ago.  
> The Aprilia
> folks reminded the group that it had a slipper clutch on it.  
> I planned on
> trying it out but just forgot.
> 
> James
>  '02 ST
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> > Heyer, Matthew A.
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:59 PM
> > To: 'ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: RE: [ST] Slipper clutch
> >
> > I think it's like ABS (not to start another
> > argument) in that it is designed to idiot proof the operation.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Kohlscheen [mailto:TrumpST@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:51 AM
> > To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ST] Slipper clutch
> >
> >
> > James Goldston wrote:
> > > Has anyone know here put a slipper clutch on
> > > their Sprint?
> >
> > I've been on the list since 1999.  I don't remember anyone 
> ever doing this
> > with a Sprint ST.  I have to agree with Chuck, an 
> instructive trackday, or
> > riding school, would probably do more good.
> >
> > Steven "Dirty Dawg" Kohlscheen
> 
> 
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