I'm wondering if I can get some advise from any of you who have a HT motor with a centrifugal clutch. I will be mounting one today on my American and am confused about how this thing works. I am accustomed by now to less than adequate instructions/suggestions from BGF, but until now it didn't really matter. I can see that the clutch housing is different from the other 80 engines, but why is there also a clutch lever, cable and all the normal stuff they attach to on the engine? How can you have both a centrifugal clutch and a manual clutch at the same time? I thought it was one or the other. This motor has a pull start which I personally like (have one on my other American), but if there's a manual clutch that would suggest you could bump start it, but that doesn't make any sense to me. I admit I know little about clutches, but am I missing something here? I notice most of the sellers do not have an engine with this "automatic" type of clutch. Is that for a good reason besides economy? Any real pitfalls? Any suggestions regarding operation or maintenance? The PDF file provided by BGF gives no information at all about the centrifugal clutch, no schematic, no instructions. I wanted to try an automatic type of clutch on one of my bikes to see if it is something I want to offer customers in the future. Yes, I plan to build bikes for sale to augment my social security. I know that older riders and some women would be more likely to purchase a bike if it were easier for them to ride. We here on the forum are comfortable with manual clutches. Sometimes I forget there are people who have never used a clutch on anything... never drove a car with a stick shift. It may seem like nothing to us, but as you know we're all a little bit different here. In fact I've noticed that some of us are real different... Ha! Thanks for any advise ahead of time.
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