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[jefrs]

Sofiaspin, blipping the throttle is essential for artistic purposes and a double down shift should be done as noisily as possible when in a tunnel

[Beezabryan]

The Enfield clutch is old time clutch, not at all in any way or shape similar in action to a modern hondukiya clutch. Son must kick into neutral from 2nd or (1st works for me) just before stopping for traffic lights, STOP line T junction or stop/go traffic congestion.
As there appears to be no gear shift problem I might suggest that there is no need of re-adjustment, could make matters worse
As I said it is an old design of clutch from the days before traffic lights & traffic congestion

[jefrs]

Useless information - the first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in 1868 and were gas operated. Unfortunately they exploded killing a policeman. Modern automatic electric traffic lights appeared in England from 1926. Even the Bullet isn't that old.



This old school type of clutch is not unique to RE and it doesn't have to drag. However the gear box is well known for disliking changing when stationary, in fact dragging is one of the reasons it doesn't like changing then, the gears are still engaged.

[PeteF]

Another problem is the flex of the gearbox outer cover (just watch it as you pull the clutch open)
It only moves a couple of mm but it's movement you can't afford.
Mr H sells a fix for this.
With this mod and the actuating lever and cable adjusted correctly it is possible to make the clutch behave.

Blipping the throttle on down changes is not for "artistic purposes" or the "free the clutch" .The purpose is to get the engine revs closer to the level they should be for the lower gear. This facilitates engagement of the gears.
Having said that, it's an Albion gearbox and is always going to be awful compared to a modern bike gearbox.

[Leon Novello]

As PeteF says. If anyone remembers driving a car with a crash gearbox (no synchromesh) and changing down.
Synchromesh is a system consisting of friction clutches which synchronize the speeds of the drive gears with the driven gears making gear changes smoother. With a crash gearbox, which we have, the speeds are synchronized by blipping the throttle. In a car this done by double de-clutching, which is done by pushing down the clutch pedal, moving the gear- lever to neutral, letting out the clutch and giving the engine a blip, then pushing down the clutch pedal moving the gearlever to the lower gear. The same is done changing up but without blipping.

[PeteF]

Yes Leon, a proper double-de-clutch would actually be better but not possible on a bike gearbox (unless you use the RE's multitude of false neutrals - now there's a challenge!)
I blip change on all vehicles, modern cars included, it makes for a smoother change.

[Beezabryan]

I note that the pedant is muddying the waters yet again with his convoluted trivia.

[sofiaspin]

Several of us with Enfields hereabouts blip the throttle as 'we believe' it monentarily frees up the plates, thus aiding down shifting. We may of course be completely wrong, but it makes us happy.

[PeteF]

Sofiaspin, with the engine running and in gear, disengaging the clutch will surely free the plates without blipping unless the clutch is dragging really badly. There's quite a lot of power trying to free those plates.

[Beezabryan]

Throttle blipping done properly increases the engine speed to the level appropriate to the lower gear about to be engaged. But no doubt someone known to us all will give us the pseudoscientific reason for and against such actions