Life spray for bikes  By  chucky (Read 1,970 times)

"Albedo100 Reflective Spray" is another name on this product!
Volvo made a good publicity stunt with this movie...

This seems like a cheaper and much better alternative to get the same effect or better than life spray:

www.instructables.com/id/Paint-your-bike-bicycle-gear-reflective/

This thread has gone every where ? but where the title said

Kat,

Rockynv explained the "double-clutching" about as well as possible... In the OLD days (as in pre-war) many trucks and even cars had non-syncro manual transmissions. In the "H" pattern of the shift-lever, you had to re-engage the clutch as the lever passes through neutral and rev the engine by ear to the approx. rpm it would be in the next gear, then QUICKLY disengage the clutch and shove the lever into the next gear, and re-engage the clutch. If all went right, the tranny would gently "crunch" into gear with little grind.

In the fifties and sixties, most all cars had syncro-mesh stick-shifts which could be up-shifted 1,2,3 or downshift 3,2 but NOT 1 just by disengaging the clutch and shifting. But first gear was not syncro until later. You couldn't downshift from second to first until stopped... UNLESS you were adept at double-clutching. You COULD go from second to neutral, let up the clutch and rev the engine to the right rpm and quickly disengage the clutch and downshift into first "on the fly".

Same with my old Harleys. The "full-dress" or "baggers" had so little power that double-clutching into first at 10-15 mph would give the old Hogs a MAJOR "snap" in accelerating back into traffic after a turn... Now "Old Blue" my animal chopper had every other tooth ground off second, third and fourth, allowing full-throttle "bang-shifting" without even using the clutch. In an all-out drag for a month's take-home pay, that little trick (while NOT recommended) could shave a half-second off an 11-second, 135 mph quarter-mile.

And NOWADAYS I prefer the "twist-n'-go" CVT scooters... Cheesh, how the mighty have fallen... LOL!

1930's truck-drivers were often called "Double-Clutchin' Weasels" in pre-war Country songs... Yup!

As rocknv said, "double clutches" are a modern improvement on the old-school clutch-n'-gears cars.

Ride safe, and at least once before you die, try out an old Harley with crash gears... They're a hoot!

Leo in Texas

Leo, thanks! I think I get it now...get that it was a REAL PAIN to drive anything back then! Sheesh!! It's sort of a miracle cars survived the old manual double-clutch horror. I thank God for the engineers who first, designed the modern clutch (although I'm not really a fan of that, either, but better than what you had!), and second, designed the auto-tranny!

Chucky, good for you, both on being seen and on being safe! As you might've gathered from my posts, I'm a firm believer in taking whatever action I need to help prevent me becoming a statistic. That includes All The Gear All The Time, and bright see-able colors. Drive safe, and keep posting!

>'Kat

Think of a manual automotive clutch as a sandwich where a rotating flywheel on the engine spins along with a pressure plate like two slices of bread with a clutch disk like a slice of provolone sitting between them so that when you take your foot off the clutch pedal or release the clutch lever big springs squeeze the provolone between the two rotating slices of bread so that the clutch disk (provolone) now spins too along with the shaft leading into the transmission and the two slices of bread. In a double clutch you add another slice of bread and cheese like making a double decker sandwich. The three slices of bread spin with the engine while the cheese spins powered by the engine only when you release the clutch pedal or lever squeezing the entire sandwich together.

Double clutching is a method of using the clutch while a double clutch is type of clutch mechanism.