I bought my first bike today. 01 Z-7R. Yellow/black It has 17kmiles on it. It has the vance and hines ssr2 exhaust on it and a k&n. My question is do I need to use the clutch when upshifting. On my dirt bike I didn't but I didn't know if it was any different on a street bike or not?

 

yes and no Some people say its bad for the bike and some say it is designed to work like that. I do it off and on on my 05 636. As long as y know how to i guess it wont hurt any thing, but that is highly debatable. I guess this really didnt help much.

 

I do it all the time on my valkyrie....and on big trucks(I am the only driver for our high angle rescue truck which is a military deuce and a half

 

i'm a truck driver so I know what you mean by floating a big truck.

 

I heard it is bad for the synchros... but even I do once in a while or when I'm feeling to lazy to clutch

 

I was always told that you would hurt the bike but me i always use the clutch when in doubt dont do it .