Can I downshift while skipping gears? For example when I'm in 13 and flip the splitter to go to 12, can I leave the splitter in low and downshift to 10, 8 ,6? Or do I have to split each gear when downshifting?
Downshifting a 13 speed
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Sythex92, Jan 7, 2018.
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Yes. As long as your rpms are in the right range. -
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If you don't split all you are doing is shifting a 9sp. Really a 13 is just a 9 where split the high side. An 18 is a 9 where where you can split the low and high side.
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When I first started it was a big ole pain to skip like that without grinding so I split them all now I barely every split on the down shift but always on the up shift
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yeah also skip while up-shifting (if you desire)
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I seldom split on a downshift. For me it's easier to drop a whole gear at a time.
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Splitting on a downshift is make work. Edit... you are not trying to cross Impossible Hill...
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