axa wrote on 03/26/14 at 04:40:40:Not to upset the motorcycle police, but having put a Jockey shift on the first bike I built, found it an intreging project, and blast to ride.
Yep, it is your bike and you can do as you want....and hopefully it will turn out to be a blast. I just want to try and make people aware that safety needs to be considered.
If someone has never operated a foot clutch or hand shift before.....I just wanted to point out that they are not "convenient" to operate. Foot clutches can either be the rocker style that stop wherever you move them to with your foot - or they can be the spring type like you have in a car or tractor. Things can get really interesting if you get off balance on the clutch side and need to put your foot down in a hurry.
When I was a teenager my dad had a 1947 Indian Chief. Foot clutch, hand shifter on the right side, throttle on the left grip, spark advance on the right grip. We lived in a rural farm area and I could ride it......but it was a cumbersome thing to operate and get all those things moving in synch. It would have been a nightmare in traffic.