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533clive Junior Member Offline Knuckle scraper, and airbrush artist Posts: 53 Andover, Hants, UK	Suicide shifter 03/23/14 at 13:53:25 Anyone here built a Savage with a foot clutch, and suicide shifter? If so, is there any chance of a pic or two of the gear shift set up, please.
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #1 - 03/23/14 at 13:57:50 Do a search in Google "suzukisavage.com suicide shifter" Here's one link- http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1168804845
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533clive Junior Member Offline Knuckle scraper, and airbrush artist Posts: 53 Andover, Hants, UK	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #2 - 03/23/14 at 14:07:35 Thanks buddy, what I actually mean is a jockey shift!
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #3 - 03/23/14 at 18:40:44 I'm thinking if that post had added a clutch lever to that shifter it would work really good.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #4 - 03/24/14 at 22:16:45 I think the stock system works great,. I get to keep hands on the bars in traffic. If someone forces me to make a quick downshift & swap lanes, I can do it,,& get away from them.
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Doody814 Junior Member Offline Posts: 75 Murfreesboro, TN Gender:	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #5 - 03/25/14 at 14:54:33 The only one I have ever seen done was here: http://www.ryandownie13.blogspot.com/ Gotta look closely, but it's there.
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Re: Suicide shifter
Reply #6 - 03/26/14 at 03:49:55

You won't get much support on this site for Suicide or Jockey Shift, Foot Clutch, removing the front wheel brake.....or any other modifications that make the bike hard to ride safely.

Foot clutches and hand shifters where around when traffic was light and speeds were slow. It is old technology that doesn't belong on a modern motorcycle....unless it is a static display show bike. If you are going to ride your bike - you might was well try and do it safely.

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Reply #7 - 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.

Infact i did find it relatively dangerous even in the 'safest' situations , as was sometimes the hardtail, and springer front end. And now that I live in a populous area, I would not do it again.

But bikes are inherently unsafe, 2 wheels instead of 4, open rather than in a cage. Who really is to say at exactly what point you are taking too much risk with your own life.

I say go for it, and don't be afraid to share your own experiences.

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Re: Suicide shifter
Reply #8 - 03/26/14 at 04:57:51

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.

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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #9 - 03/26/14 at 06:28:17 My first bike was a '37 Enfield. I bought it from the original owner, who bought that particular bike because it was the only one available with a foot shift. All others at that time were hand shift.
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strang Senior Member Offline Posts: 387 london Gender:	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #10 - 03/28/14 at 03:53:45 Everytime I see these my head just screams WHY? Fair enough if you have a disability but if not you are just upping your chances of ending up with one. There's cool and then there's just dumb. Sorry I'll go back to my coffee now...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Suicide shifter Reply #11 - 03/28/14 at 04:33:44 I see one & I think, If thats how they came from the factory, people would be trying to get them modded to work the way they do NOW.
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