Re: Gearbox without clutch
You will damage the gearbox if you don't do it right and since most motosists couldn't do it right, the clutch was invented to disconnect the engine from the gearbox while that action was taking place. Then you could select the next gear smoothly.
In fact, even with the clutch, there was another invention called the synchromesh which made shifting smoother. Before synchromesh was introduce, you had to do something called a 'double de-clutch' to get the gears synchronised so they could join each other properly. It was an 'art' and if you didn't do it well, your gearbox would make a lot of noise when changing gears.
I didn't have to double de-clutching because by the time I started driving, synchromesh was already standard. Today, you are lucky with things like tiptronic, no need a clutch pedal even!
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