Finished welding up the clutch part. No photos today but once it's gone through the sandblaster tomorrow I have some. Next on the list is making up a dual pull front brake. I had planned to use both levers to control each one of the front brakes but since one side has to be devoted to the clutch I now need to use one lever to control both the front brakes.
I do have a dual pull brake lever that I may be able to convert but if not it looks like a lot of creative staring is in order. Maybe just a little muttering and grumbling as well.
Steve.
I remember doing 180's in the snow, my bro using the emergency brake not evenly adjusted (rear wheels) VW Bug. I think the Tadpole would turn left or right without the usual method of steering (turning the wheel) if two brake levers were used and not pulled evenly. Normal steering could compensate I expect if not pulling to much difference of the brake pads, but I expect dealing with that could be annoying to some.
To the point of light bulbs appearing above ones head, it took a while recently on a outing camping and riding motorcross. Finally I thought after seeing I was about 500 feet from my campground and the twist grip throttle cable was noticed broken inside the grip after I took apart the twist grip, I set the throttle on constant full open. A bungy cord I fastened to the mechanism with the return spring. I used the kill switch button on the handle bars to set the duty cycle to adjust speed.
Later when fixing the cable in the campground, I had a cover off and decided to look at the air filter. Lots of foamy oil from the breather and on some of the filter, but it was running fine, so should I care. I cleaned it and will get a new air filter anyway. Now a week later I figured why it was there.
Long coasting the bike with the kill switch, just after high speed run up the paved campground road, the centrifugal clutch shoes locked to the bell, and no spark equals foaming oil from the breather on the filter. I expect I will carry another cable and tools with me on the bike to repair on future trips to the boonies. Cable weights next to nothing and I carry most tools anyway.
Using that method to adjust speed on trails could be a bit dangerous besides maybe enough oil foaming and not getting burned could occur to a greater degree. Clogging the air filter and miles from campground does not fit well. Snow covering mud on the trails the first day before it melted was interesting.
Almost went down dealing with the mud, but stopped and turned around when steep hill and mud combined with stream crossing appeared.
