Anybody know if I can purchase a Suicide Clutch Jockey shifter instead of using the typical hand clutch lever that mounts on the left side of the handle bar?
Yep, will most likely end up fabricating a home brewed shifter. The motorcycle catalogs sell them but they are around $150 and they are designed towards certain year engine models on a Harley. I'm fabricating a retro pedal bike to look like an early 1900's model with olive green paint and cream balloon tires. Thus the reason I want to install the shifter to preserve that old school look. Have never come across a modern day motorized pedal bike with a jockey shifter. Maybe mine will be the 1st.Yeah true.....not sure what I was thinking about...unsure if you could find something out not.
What about making one?
Lot of money for a lever and knob. Not that hard to make.http://hotrodbicycles.gostorego.com/ how about this .....
You learn something new every day... Thanks Steve.I'm afraid your confusing two different things. A jockey shifter is simply a shifting arm clamped on to the end of the shifting forks on a transmission. Some of the earlier bikes like Harley's and Indians had foot clutches and a shifter on the gas tank.
It was considered cool to remove the tank and shifter especially when building a chopper and you removed the tank and shifter and replaced it with a different tank and added the short shifting arm to the shifting linkage so you could shift the transmission. You looked like a jockey whipping a horse when you reached down to shifted hence the name. Usually on the right side and placed low on the frame.
If you don't have a transmission to shift you won't need the jockey shift and if you have a multi speed rear hub you could mount the shifter low on the seat tube so it pulls the hub shifter through the gears much like the cross bar mounted shifters.
Steve.