Motorcycle gear change and clutch?

I am a new rider and I have couple of questions.



Say you're at a stop signal on first gear. When you move, do u hold in the clutch once, and shift to 3 or 4 or 5... gear? Or... do you hold the clutch, go to second gear, let go of the clutch, then throttle, then hold the clutch in again, go to third gear.... and keep doing that. What is the proper way, and what is the most common way? Does the same thing apply to downshifting?
Motorcycle gear change and clutch?
Disengage/reengage clutch PER gear shift.

Just like a car. Most bike gearboxes, being sequential, don't often change more than 1 gear at a time very well. They need the load to shift properly.



Especially for downshifts. If you drop too many cogs on a single clutch on a big 4T the engine compression will lock the back wheel (2Ts and slipper clutches excluded)



read some books, and have a hunt on net for gear change techniques.

On the downshifts, u want to be blipping the throttle while u have the clutch in, so that u are matching the rpm to the next gear.



For upshifts, to make it smooth, you Want to Lightly %26quot;preload%26quot; the gearlever with your toe while you have the gas on. Then try to roll off the gas and pull the clutch in simultaneously and lift your toe a little harder all at the same time. The gear should just smoothly snick in, so smooth u can barely feel it. Then clutch out and then smoothly onto the gas.



It's also feasible to do clutchless upshifts just by preloading the gearlever and gettng partially off the gas. But save those for when u can do clutched changes properly and u are on the track (works best from full throttle)
Motorcycle gear change and clutch?
Might pay to do a Motorcycle Safety Foundation course. If you don't know this basic stuff, there's probably a heap of other stuff you don't know either.