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Originally Posted by RedDevil
Fully released or fully engaged is fine. I never worn or lost a clutch in my life, easily managing over 120 k miles with a lot of traffic jams and city driving. Nor did I ever lose a throw-out bearing. It is the one thing that bearing was designed to do, it should be able to.
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I've killed Teresa's throw-out bearing. She was 111k km-old back then and I don't have the faintest idea how long the bearing would have lasted if I didn't coast with disengaged clutch this much (speaking about a motorcycle it's hard to get on and off neutral while rolling at higher speeds). The part was dirt cheap, the labor wasn't.
On the other hand, the clutch plates are older than the ones I had worn before I started coasting and they work fine. Well,
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matching engine and gear revs before releasing the clutch
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helped a lot. When I started riding I didn't do this but shifted through the gears while engine braking. Now I rarely use engine brake, but coast a lot. My FE became much better and I still use much less brake than the average rider.