I injured my left hand in January.

It appears that I may be in a cast for several more months and may not have sufficient strength to work the clutch handle for, perhaps a year or so from now. If ever.

As such I have not been riding since the accident and I am wondering if there is a system, parts, stuff, to make my RKC into a foot clutch/hand shift.

Anyone know of such a set up? Or, what parts I would need to make a set up such as this?

 

Its do able, hence the name suicide shift. Kit, i kinda doubt, u might have to piece something together.

 

I figure that, of all the places I could ask, this forum would be the place where the expertise and knowledge would be found.

Hopefully there shall be some here who will be able to give me the direction I am searching for.

 

 

are we talking about arm cast? or hand cast? just a thought...

I had an extremely stiff racing clutch on an old high performance shovel once, most people took 2 hands to pull clutch lever, however I never used my hand normally using fingers, instead I used my arm & just wrapped hand around lever & pulled my whole arm, it worked, & would drop arm to my leg unless pulling clutch. yes I broke a cable every 4 to 6 months. but seriously I coulnt pull clutch lever in with my hand on grip it was really that stiff.

 

I had a shovel that I put into a hardtail frame and had a Jockey shift with a foot clutch. I really liked it. The jockey shift is no real problem. The hard part to get was the Rock-a-bye clutch. The suicide clutch has to be held down constantly when the clutch is disengaged, but I put a old stock harley part on that I ran a cable to the clutch lever to.
With the rock-a-bye foot clutch, you can press it down and then take your foot off. It breaks over so the pressure from the clutch holds it disengaged. When you get ready to go, you step on the rear of the clutch pedal and that engages it again.

I think if you could find this setup, it could still be used on a new bike. I had to have a little cable guide machined for the clutch cable.

If you're interested, let me know and I'll try to dig up pictures of the clutch setup on the old hardtail.

 

I think jbrake makes a foot clutch.

 

check the softtail section for jockey shifters. labriola makes kits for most harleys.

 

try these guys, they are in denver

http://lajockeyshifter.com/labriola_machine3_001.htm#

labriolamachine@netzero.com

 

Not sure how it works, and it is expensive but you may want to check out the Pingle Shift Kits.
JP Cycle sells them.