I ride my bike a lot and if you change gears while pedaling you’re met with a lot of resistance and the bike creates a very audible and tactile *crunch* when the gears shift which is regarded as you making a mistake and a sign of a novice rider. And, while I’ve never driven a manual transmission car, I do know that you should also disengage the accelerator when depressing the clutch to switch gears and the transition is smoother if you get really good at this just like on a bike.
I understand that changing gears while accelerating is “bad” but I do not understand what damage is being done and why it is being done. It’s also odd to me that I can’t switch gears while applying power to a vehicle, but I can switch gears in a stand mixer without needing to shut it off.
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You won’t suddenly kill your bike transmission but you might find that your are going very fast through them like cogs and sprocket with dead teeth after a few hundred miles when it should hold up thousands.
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