Surely 'to clutch' is 'to grip, or hold onto', therefore de-clutching refers
to pushing the clutch pedal down.
PaulH.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>
To: Paul Nelson <ya632@victoria.tc.ca>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: double / single clutch
> 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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