Hello I'm Chris.
In this video we're going to look at clutch control on a hill.
Let's start with moving off downhill.
Moving off downhill is a lot easier than moving off uphill.
I won't need any gas or any biting point as gravity will make me move.
I'll press down the clutch go into 1st gear and my right foot can be ready for the brake.
I'll check all around and the blind spot.
Release the handbrake.
Go the brake ready now, gravity is making me move and now the clutch can slowly come
up.
If I was to raise the clutch too quickly I would of moved off too fast or stalled.
Let's have a look at moving off on a speed hump, on a hill.
I'll definitely need my handbrake.
I'm in first gear.
Get my gas set up to about 2 here.
Got the biting point, the back dipped down and the front raised up.
Just holding the clutch steady.
Really feel that, the handbrake goes down.
Keeping the clutch still here.
Then the clutch slowly comes up.
I'm now going to control the speed on this hill using the gas and the clutch.
Got the clutch down about half way.
Moving the clutch very slowly.
Raising it to speed up or lowering it to slow down.
It's actually possible to hold the car still just using the gas and the clutch.
Takes a bit of practice but it can be done.
Got the gas and the biting point, really trying to move the car as slow as I can as if I was
in a traffic jam.
Get the gas and the biting point.
See if I can keep the car still just using the gas and the clutch, no brakes at all.
Raising the clutch slowly to make the car move or lowering it down slightly to slow
down.
I'm moving the clutch about the thickness of a pound coin.
Very slight movements.
You don't normally want to hold the biting point for that long as it does wear out the
clutch but I just wanted to show you for demonstrational purposes the power of the clutch.
I'm turning right at the end of the road.
I'm leaving the brake as late as I can, clutch down now so that I don't coast.
Coasting is when you hold the clutch too early and the car can free-wheel and speed up and
you lose a bit of control.
I've got this downhill start here.
It's quite a busy road.
I won't need too much biting point as the hill will launch me away.
The clutch now slowly comes up as I apply more gas.
That's the end of our video on clutch control on a hill.
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