everyone here (at tumkur) tell me changing gears fast is bad :| and harms the clutch....

how i shift gears
i just close the throttle for an instant , press the lever, do the shifting with the toe (tick) and again release the lever, all of this within a second.

and yes i do 60-70 in the city sometimes.

at least i can vouch that riding at high speeds in no way harms the clutch plates. i have done bangalore-tumkur at least a 100 times and always above 90 at full nearby 7k - max.

i never ever ride on the clutch.. use it minimal


edit
clutch plate change at 56k !!
ill try to get closer to that figure but i doubt it

I got the clutch plates on my 'departed' Disco 125 dtsi changed at 14000.I think one of the reason includes change in riding style of people on the same bike.Since the Disco was used by a lot of people in my home I guess that's what caused the problem. My Uncle tended to go around doing 30 in 4th while a friend of mine used to mash the accelerator until the bike was screaming past 60 and then changed to 4th and I tended to change gears at the right rpm.
I guess riding style of different people on the same bike affect the clutch plates' life too. I maybe wrong though. Does anyone else agree?

completely agree. I know what your speak of .. the bike feels much different when you ride it again.. i experienced this within a month .. when i left it with a friend when i had gone home for a month after my semester ended,

when speaking of clutch it mainly depends on how you use the clutch, generally the cluctch for vehicles in cities like DELHI, LUDHIANA, MUBBAI and all other crowded places tend to fail quicker than what they would do in smalled cities with less traffic. cause the clutch there is not being used that much and then we are not half clutching much. (this applies to the sensible riders or drivers).

when we do half clutching at that time the presure plates and the other plates (i would not know if clutch plates is the exact name for that ) they are not firmly pressed togather at that time they keep spinning causing the friction because of the non locked state. and that makes the clutch to wear. so the best way to do it is to use the clutch as less as possible try to keep your hand off the clutch lever when not in use cause even if it is depreszsed a lil bit it may keep the clutch in constant use and you know what happens... i have done 20 thousand km's with the clutch that i got installed when i first rebuild my bullet last year. and recently when we opened it up my mechanic told me that it looks brand new. and to notic i have done the LEH trip which needed too much of half clutching and major high revs.

Absolutely Correct Desi!
the city/place we ride our Bike often decides(generally0 how often we need to replace our plates, but am NOT talking about the exceptional cases...both on the negative and positive sides!
Use Clutch primarily for Changing Gear and Avoid (as far as possible )riding in Half Clutch, u cant Screw the plates More any other way.
remember...Clutch would loose its life each time we pull and release it, but the effect is minimum,if not at all.
But it will degrade considerably if you ride in half engaged position, also please remember...,there is generally no replacement for a GEAR CHANGE...I mean, Change the gears when needed. it is always better to change the gear and accelerate then to ride in Half clutch. Got my Point!
Happy riding

well quite simply u will feel a loss in pickup and performance in the bike
especially during gear change

a good indicator to get your bike checked