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perlmongerI've just been reading (on cix:bikers if anyone cares) that the UK Official Line on learning to drive now is that using engine braking or even, Pry Mincer forfend, changing down to get more engine braking is bad, wrong and generally verboten.
I can just see all these new, approved drivers coming down a hill in Wales or the Highlands or the Pennines or anywhere not in Lincolnshire or East Anglia happily controlling their speed in 5th with their brakes until the magic smoke exits from their poor overstressed brakepads and they end up performing a graceful loop over a drystone wall followed by a plummet to a reservoir 500 feet below.
Still, their clutchplates won't wear out, so that's ok...
I can just see all these new, approved drivers coming down a hill in Wales or the Highlands or the Pennines or anywhere not in Lincolnshire or East Anglia happily controlling their speed in 5th with their brakes until the magic smoke exits from their poor overstressed brakepads and they end up performing a graceful loop over a drystone wall followed by a plummet to a reservoir 500 feet below.
Still, their clutchplates won't wear out, so that's ok...
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Date: 2005-09-06 06:16 pm (UTC)I still use the engine braking myself...
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Date: 2005-09-06 06:21 pm (UTC)Even driving a slushbox, I automatically (sorry) drop into 2 or low or whatever they call the thing when going downhill. I've more respect for my brakelinings and my neck not to.