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**Ilikeabikea** · #81 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 08:58 PM

My kit came with a locking clutch. Yours didn't??????????

deacon · #82 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 09:18 PM

yes but it was crap. I switched it for a brake handle works much better.

**Bikeguy Joe** · #83 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 08:36 AM

Deacon- Their are levers available that operate BOTH brakes (with a single handle).

Personally, I would rather have a front brake as the first option, rear brake to "augument" the front.

Over 70% of availble stopping force is on the front wheel.

**Ilikeabikea** · #84 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 09:35 AM

I prefer the back brake for my default braking. The front brake will stop you faster because as you decelerate you get more downward force on the front wheel and less on the back. My problem is we have lots of gravel that gets around the edges of the roads, where I ride most of the time. Front brake, gravel. Not good..............................

deacon · #85 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 10:12 AM

Well i have the wide 26" inch wheel on the front and the little bitty rear wheel. Even with the coaster brake the front hand brake works at least as well. I have it on the right hand lever and the clutch on the left. I really do prefer the coaster rear since it doesn't require a handle.

Joe those double pull brake handles are way way too expensive the way I break them up. I have broken three already. I know there is no reason to have done that but I managed.

deacon · #86 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 12:52 PM

YET ANOTHER SILLY QUESTION

As usual I have a prefix because no one would ever guess where this comes from otherwise and the little men in white might just be dispatched to my house. They know the address already.

Anyway, I have a basket on the front of my bike. I need gas at the moment. No not in the bike in my gas can. My gas can is too big so I'm looking around for something that will hold about a gallon. Oh course i have empty antifreeze bottles in my shop. I know everyone else throws theirs out but I carry water in mine now and then.

Anyway, I decided to clean one out and use it to ride the bike to a gas station and fill it up. But then I got to wondering. What would happen if a couple of oz of antifreeze got mixed with the gas. Since it is kind of an alcohol would it burn or contaminate the gas so much that it would never burn again.

Come on somebody has to know from experience.

**Ilikeabikea** · #87 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 01:20 PM

If it was me, I would put little bit of gas in the antifreeze jug. Slosh it around a little and pour it out. Then fill it up with gas. That may not be the politically or environmentally correct thing to do, but I'd do it anyway. You know how us rednecks are..............................

deacon · #88 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 03:00 PM

Oh im gonna clean it real well, I was just wondering what would happen.. call it intellectual curiosity. I might use it in a story some day.

**Norman** · #89 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 06:55 PM

Deacon
You really don't know how nasty antifreeze will screw up an engine. I've seen a 1100 hp white superior go from wide open to an instant stop and damn near rip its self off the mounts. I'm talking 14" bore big pistons and a big turbo charger this thing only truns 900 rpms and its putting out 1100 hp. When antifreeze gets into the combustion chamber it will get hot enough to form a sort of green glass. Now this may not happen on one of these samll engines but the stuff is not good to get in it if you get my drift. Flush out the antifeee jug very well water will work then a small amount of alcohol or gas will take care of the rest. This is war time conditions for a gas jug but its cheap. A small bottle of Heat will take care of the water in the jug. After pouring the heat out you can use it for a gas jug if the laws allow it there other wise you could get into deep dodo for caring gas in a non approved container. Wally world sells little 1 gal. jugs in a nice red color and they are approved for fuel and don't cost an arm or a leg. Be careful and play it safe my friend.
Norman

deacon · #90 (**permalink**) 03-06-2008, 07:11 PM

Now see Norman not only did you convince me to NOT use the antifreeze carton but you also gave me information for a bit of my story. That's why IIII like this forum. It isn't ALL about the engine and the bike, it's about lots of things.

Thanks my friend.