How Throttle Blipping Came To Be

[wildbears]

How Throttle Blipping Came To Be

At one time it was a necessity.
By Kevin Cameron
May 12, 2020

https://www.cycleworld.com/story/mot...ng-came-to-be/

[802Mike]

So it's built into just the cruiser riders brains now?

[955i]

Cameron and Peter Egan take only a backseat to Clem as motorcycle writers. Cameron is always interesting and informative. But, he left out the main reason I blipped the throttle on my old sbikes . . . the damn things wouldn't idle right and would stall if left to their own devices. CB-160, Cb-750, both liked a blip or two while waiting on a long light at an intersection. It became so ingrained, I catch myself doing it still from time to time on modern fuel-injected bikes that really don't need it. My "blips," though, are through stock exhaust pipes and bother no one. Interestingly, my shifting habits were also honed in days of clunky gearboxes, and reflect some of that, too. Really, anymore on modern bikes just "crashing" through the gears is every bit as good as trying to match revs and snicking it in smoothly.

[cabnfvr]

Anyone else remember bias tires and wet single disc brakes that would take a fist full of effort to slow down ....... until they SUDDENLY dried out. That would make you blip your undies.

[Lee]

I remember drum brake that grabbed when damp.

[Loggiebone]

I remember drum brakes that didn't work at all...;(

[cjs350]

Anyone else remember bias tires and wet single disc brakes that would take a fist full of effort to slow down ....... until they SUDDENLY dried out. That would make you blip your undies.

OH Yes. My '75 Z-1 Kawasaki had one front stainless steel disc that was useless when wet, until it wasn't, and I probably sucked an inch or two of seat more than once.