FYSA, manuals can come in wet and dry clutch arrangements. Most manual cars/trucks use dry clutches outside the transmission but most modern motorcycles use a "

FYSA, manuals can come in wet and dry clutch arrangements. Most manual cars/trucks use dry clutches outside the transmission but most modern motorcycles use a "wet" clutch with the entire transmission/clutch bathed in the engine oil. Doing so saves weight/complexity and keeps everything more rigid. This is also why you can smell a burning clutch plate on a car but not on a motorcycle. But if you ever hear a Ducati motorcycle that sounds odd at idle, sounding like it is broken, that sound may be because Ducati is one of the few major brands that used external "dry" clutches.