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And it seems like opinions vary on what the lack of power shifting vs lifting a bit is doing to my actual et?
Well, in either case above you are not power shifting, once you push the clutch you loose the power part.
Back in the late 60's when sticks were a lot more common that today, the racers that I knew called POWERSHIFTING just pulling the handle without using the clutch or lifting the gas; SPEEDSHIFTING was slightly using the clutch and leaving the gas floored, and GRANNYSHIFTING was clutching and lifting the gas. Different guys call it differently, like the posi/sure-grip/traction-lock nicknames. I never saw too many guys actually powershift without using a modified trans - as in modified blocker rings and sliders. I also learned a trick we called button-shifting - you would put a switch in the shifter ball that would short the coil when pushed. As you shifted. you tapped the button, which made the motor nose over, and you could shift the trans easier. Many bikes still do it today; it's tied into the airshifter button; the tell-tale is the pop through the pipes from the ignition cycling and burning the gas out of the pipes.
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