I used to always ride the clutch or just hold the clutch and the brake down, then blip throttle and go...
I've stopped doing either as much now as I've absolutely fucked my throwout bearing after doing this daily for the last 12000 miles.
I don't do the handbrake method unless my feet ache from driving all day.
Neither you stupid shit. You just do it the normal way, except a bit faster.
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Look at this bad ass over here.
Fucking stupid. you don't fucking heel toe to get started
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Why use heel toe or handbrake when you can simply hold both clutch and brake and slowly release clutch until it gets to catch point and then step on gas and release clutch fully?
Heel toe is for boiracers realy and handbrake is sometimes foot operated.
what are you niggers talking about
handbrake on when you're at a red light in the hills. If you want to go just drop the clutch about 3/8's of the way, keep the revs up and take the handbrake off. Piss easy, faggots with zero roll back
Why wear the clutch out? Why use the handbrake? Just learn to fucking drive you pussy
why not smash into the car behind me and hold liability? im not dumping the clutch and driving off with the handbrake on you goddamn retard its not harming anything
Hand-brake obviously, it's what it's there for.
There's no point in wearing your clutch out in these circumstances, and engaging the hand-brake when stationary puts ZERO wear on your brakes, while making for a much more graceful and controlled start.
It takes very little hand-brake force to hold a car on anything but the steepest of hills, during which you can leave the gearbox in neutral with your foot off the clutch pedal entirely.
When it's time to get moving, just leave normally, with the hand-brake still engaged initially, and releasing it as you begin moving. By leaving the hand-brake engaged momentarily, until you're fully committed to leaving, you essentially have weak autobrakes. Just don't engage the hand-brake too hard, only enough to prevent the car from rolling backwards. It doesn't take much to overcome it and drive forward.
This helps tremendously when negotiating complicated and busy hilly intersections like one finds in downtown San Francisco. Be aware however, leaving with the hand-brake even partially engaged will put some wear on the rear brakes, but slipping the clutch for extended periods in these situations puts incredible wear on the clutch, and brake pads are far cheaper to replace.
I presume many of the people saying to just drive normally leaving from hills are driving trucks or other vehicles with substantial torque and/or rotating mass. I know my pickup requires far less effort to drive in such situations, it can just idle away from the average inclined stop without stalling. But the average car is a 4 cylinder these days, and the hand-brake is often placed right next to the shifter on such vehicles to make it equally accessible for this reason.