Exactly! What you describe is what I thought I wrote. David described that
technique (by a slip of the keyboard, I'm sure) as what Skye called
single-clutching, but it is, as you rightly state, double-clutching because
the clutch pedal goes in and out as you "engage" neutral to blip the
throttle, then in and out again as you engage the lower gear.
Of course, this is probably going to get even more confusing when someone
reminds us all that the English term for this is "double de-clutching", and
then questions whether engaging the clutch is the act of depressing the
clutch pedal (which, technically, disengages it) or of letting it out.
Anyone for a change of thread?
Lawrie
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Nelson <ya632@victoria.tc.ca>
To: British Sportscar Center <mgpa@calweb.com>; David Hill
<davhill@cwcom.net>; Skye Poier <skye@ffwd.com>; MG Nuts
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: double / single clutch
>At 15:40 1/27/00 -0800, British Sportscar Center wrote:
>>Hmmm, David, now there's a puzzling statement! Double-clutching is the
>>technique where one blips the throttle as one passes through neutral to
>>match the revs of the lower gear, so I believe you've got it
>>backwards...........
>
> Sorry, but this doesn't make sense at all to me. How can it be
>double clutching unless you engage the clutch twice? I accelerate during
>the time in neutral when the clutch pedal is out. That's the way I learned
>it, anyway.
> Works on shifting from first to second in an old Land Rover with
>only 3rd and 4th synchro, without the acceleration but a pause for the
>gears to slow down to match the higher gear.
>Paul Nelson
>
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