nyota
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- Polish
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- Poland
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- Australia
The driver at the traffic lights was riding his clutch. (I once jotted the sentence down but I don't remember where it's from.)
I know riding the clutch means keeping it between full engagement and disengagement and that people sometimes do it in slow traffic, or when they let out the clutch too slowly when changing gears, but I don't quite get how you can ride it at the traffic lights? The way I see it is that you basically wait at the lights.
Or is it that somebody spotted a driver at the lights and 'heard' the roaring sound you make when you are slow with the clutch and use too many revs to pull away?
I know riding the clutch means keeping it between full engagement and disengagement and that people sometimes do it in slow traffic, or when they let out the clutch too slowly when changing gears, but I don't quite get how you can ride it at the traffic lights? The way I see it is that you basically wait at the lights.
Or is it that somebody spotted a driver at the lights and 'heard' the roaring sound you make when you are slow with the clutch and use too many revs to pull away?