How Do Motogp Bikes Shift Gears

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How do motogp bikes shift gears. Road shift is the conventional gear shifting pattern on the vast majority of motorcycles. More riders make mistakes going up the gearbox than going down in the stock configuration. Let s have a look at what riders can do with the buttons on a motogp bike during a race. You ll see the riders push the lever down to make the bike upshift and pull the shift lever up to downshift.
At any motogp weekend riders and their bikes circle the track a great number of times. But motogp bikes have the first gear up and the rest of them down. Pulled the clutch in just by a fraction when shifting down. If you miss a shift going up through the gears you can very well get ran over by the guy behind you where going down isn t as critical since you are on the brakes.
For a long time quick shifters have been in use which removes the need of clutching and rol. To go from gear 2 1 you shift up and to go from 1 2 you shift down. Motogp bikes are prototype machines using the cutting edge technology. Sometimes riders reverse the shift pattern for the track and this is known as race shift.
Going down the gear box usually isn t a critical as going up. I guess shifting up doesnt differ a lot from a normal bike allowing to shift without the clutch. So basically in a street bike. They click down to go up in gears and click up to go down in gear.
Motogp bikes have sophisticated electronics that sense a downshift and will automatically blip the throttle to match the rear wheel speed. It has six gears plus neutral. Normally 1st gear is down and the rest are up. Together with the slipper clutch often called back torque limiter in motogp do all the work to make downshifts smooth.
During each lap the rider has to do much more than just accelerate brake lean the bike and change gears. It s so they can shift up while coming out. But the shifting pattern is reverse of the normal shifting pattern. Ngm mobile forward racing s sergio verbena crew chief to colin edwards explains the intricacies of changing gear during a motogp race.
Or to be more exact gear 1 is up then 2 3 4 etc. Most of the bikes in the grid currently makes use of a kind of seamless gearbox.