FrankYoungWolf wrote on 10/25/13 at 17:38:35:Thank you all, Suicide Throttle huh? I think I know what that is. Is it when you have the shifter on the side like standard shift? I have seen a few bikes with this and have always thought it was so cool looking, Now ya got me wondering, how hard would that be to do...LOL
That's a jockey shift. No such thing as suicide shift, you can have a suicide clutch, which is just a standard Harley rocker clutch through sometime in the mid 1950s when the "sport shifter" (hand clutch foot shift) came onto the market for Panheads.
Easy job by the way. Convert shifter lever to clutch pedal. Look up old Triumph tech articles from The Horse Backstreet Choppers. Have tiny clutch cable made. Weld an outward extension onto the shifter pivot left on the shifter splined shaft after the foot clutch conversion. Weld a new upright shift arm onto the stub. Add a threaded piece to accept a shift knob.
I had a jockey arm all set up for mine, got left behind in WA when we moved in 2011. Even had the real deal pre-ban ivory shift knob out of my late grandfather's truck on it. Never liked the shift knob, and the set up did get used on an old friend's custom XS850 project, so don't mind having left it behind.
I want a thumb throttle for my bike... Why not, it has a front drum, Pan/Knuckle/Vincent brake and clutch perch/lever set, etc...