5th gear "crunching" with shift

Originally Posted by jay4500 whats the benefit or purpose of shifting from 3th straight to 5th or 2nd straight to 5th gear. I can see skipping gears on a down

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5th gear "crunching" with shift

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01-25-2012, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jay4500

whats the benefit or purpose of shifting from 3th straight to 5th or 2nd straight to 5th gear. I can see skipping gears on a down shift but cannot understand skipping on up shifts.

No competitive benefit - the occasion where I did this was a brisk romp for the first two gears, then noticing that I was well in excess of the speed limit in second, so I let way off the throttle and tried to find 5th for a cruise gear. Only found the grind.

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