Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:33:03 -0000 From: "Phil Born" <philbornnopsam.nojunkfsnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Freewheeling
"Johannes H Andersen" <johsnopsamanytime.co.uk> wrote in message news:1ec6845d.0112040037.100e21d0nopsaming.google.com... > philcyclesnopsamcom (Phil Brown) wrote in message news:<20011121142505.07903.00000730nopsamk.aol.com>... > > Freewheeling was a pretty common feature before the 60s. Rovers used it as did > > Studebaker. There were others as well. It allowed clutchless gearchanges. > > Phil Brown > > But I wonder how such a freewheler would perform in mountainous areas? > Then you can only rely on the brakes which may easily overheat. > > I took an UK driving test around 1980, here any coasting was frowned > upon, the car had to be in gear at all time. E.g. approaching a red light > you had to change down 5-4-3-2 and then finally declutch at the light, > handbrake too of course. I never practiced any of that afterwards. > > Johannes Ah! You must be one of the many morons I have to sit behind in traffic whilst you blind me with 50kw of rear lighting. (ok, slight exageration.) Incidentally, you don't (and never did) have to change down through all the gears in the UK, just be in a gear. When coasting, it's considered that you don't have full control of the vehicle. Nobody complaind about that when using a bicycle on the public highway. You are supposed to change the speed you want with the brakes and then select to the appropriate gear directly. If that's 5th - neutral at a junction, then that's ok. Personally, I prefer to use engine braking as much as possible.
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