[Spridgets] Driving Schools

Robert Duquette robertduquette at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 12 08:01:02 MST 2007


It looks very elegant and impressive though, doesn't it?

I remember my father double clutching in his log truck and he made it look 
like dancing.  ( Waltzing, not R&R. :))  His nickname among his 
co-workers/competitors was "Turtle".

Robert D.



>From: "Guy Weller" <guy.weller at tiscali.co.uk>
>
>Ron,
>That may be true to some extent, but I doubt if many people can do it that
>accurately, and it rather then begs the question as to what are the synchro
>rings for?
>
>I think it also depends on the type of driving you do. If you potter along
>in the sunshine and are never in a hurry, then maybe double de-clutching is
>ok. But I use mine as a daily driver and work car. I need to keep up with -
>or ahead of, the modern traffic in all sorts of driving conditions. DD
>clutching just doesn't come in to it!.  I have just travelled about 160
>miles this morning, to attending work meetings in the western Lake 
>District,
>including fast dual carriageways, twisty narrow lanes and single track
>mountain passes.  And if at every change I de-clutched, moved into neutral,
>took my foot off the clutch, blipped the throttle, depressed the clutch
>again and then moved into the next gear I would still be 100 miles away!
>
>Guy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: spridgets-bounces+guy.weller=tiscali.co.uk at autox.team.net
>[mailto:spridgets-bounces+guy.weller=tiscali.co.uk at autox.team.net]On Behalf
>Of Ron Soave
>Sent: 12 December 2007 12:50
>To: spridgets at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Driving Schools
>
>--- Guy Weller <guy.weller at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I learn't to drive in a car that had no sychromesh
> > on any gears, and the first 4 cars that I owned
> > all had no non synchro gears.
>
>Doesn't that mean that a properly executed
>rev-matching double clutch doesn't "involve" your
>synchros and is saving your transmission?
>
>Ron


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