Ask new riders what intimidates them most about learning to ride a street bike and you’ll get a few answers. The bike’s size and weight are usually toward th...
Not sure if removing the need for clutch control helps new riders or not … for most people, learning it on a small bike will improve their riding technique before progressing to a bigger one (which seems to be the goal of most new riders).
What this does do is make bikes more accessible to people with disabilities regarding the use of one hand or coordination issues between hands, which is a good thing.
As a person who moved from Kawasaki Vulcan S to KTM 390 I’d say I needed to learn how to use the clutch again. Using a clutch on the road might surely be educational to new riders, but I don’t think it adds any skill that can help you elsewhere
The only motorcycle discipline I found where I had to re-learn how to use the clutch has been trials. Even in Moto Gymkhana the clutch is used the same (just more)
Not sure if removing the need for clutch control helps new riders or not … for most people, learning it on a small bike will improve their riding technique before progressing to a bigger one (which seems to be the goal of most new riders).
What this does do is make bikes more accessible to people with disabilities regarding the use of one hand or coordination issues between hands, which is a good thing.
As a person who moved from Kawasaki Vulcan S to KTM 390 I’d say I needed to learn how to use the clutch again. Using a clutch on the road might surely be educational to new riders, but I don’t think it adds any skill that can help you elsewhere
I’m not sure I follow …?
The only motorcycle discipline I found where I had to re-learn how to use the clutch has been trials. Even in Moto Gymkhana the clutch is used the same (just more)