gizzo wrote on 11/04/14 at 17:04:30:Yeah man, go for it! Get all WD on it too: get a rigid rear end, fit a front drum brake and why not mount the fuel tap in the headlight shell and put the indicator switch under the seat? It'll be the safest bike there is, 'cause you won't be able to ride it.
I'm just funnin' ya.
Seriously though, what do you think will happen when you've trained yourself to use the jockey shift, then comes the time for an emergency stop or evasion. Your muscle memory expects the clutch and gears to be where they should be, confusion reigns and whoops, down you go.
Vintage bikes get away with it because they only have 1 or 2 gears usually, you hardly ever have to use them and they only travel slowly. But to each their own...
Good luck.
Fuel tap on the 98 was on the gas tank.
Savages are already the safest bike to ride by your reckoning, my 98 fragged it's mostly stock electrical system at 25K miles and change, the 2003 at a touch over 21K (odometer takes 17 miles to show one mile, so, way off). Yesterday on the way to work.
Suicide clutch, not suicide shift. And it actually refers specifically to a foot clutch which the detent removed, the one that holds the clutch pedal down so you can safely rest both feet on the ground.
The tank mounted shifter was available into the late 1950s, stock. Works great, as does the left hand throttle on a real Indian, the manual spark advance on real HD and Indian bikes, the right side foot shift and left side brake on 1974 and older Sportsters and British bikes...
Pulled the 98 off the firing line since I still hadn't got around to using it for target practice. Maybe, between the 98 and the 03, I can cobble one working bike together. Still haven't had the rigid framed, springer equipped spool front wheel (no brake, and no way to add one) wearing 57 Panhead sent down here from storage in WA.
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