Softail shifter
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Softails don't have mounts for standard pegs, if by "standard" you mean mid-mount pegs. If that isn't what you mean, then I'm lost, LOL!
That said, this can be done and has been done. What I saw was done by modifying the forwards on a bike to accommodate another rod that went back to a home-made bracket for a mid mount footpeg/shifter. It wasn't very well done and the mid-mount had a lot of slop. Better design/construction might've solved the slop.
Seems to me a better way would be to use a through-the-primary mid setup. Might require some serious fabrication. Don't know if a Superglide type inner/outer primary would work on the Softail, but I have my doubts they are the same. If this method was used a shift pedal would have to be fabbed with a vertical lever welded or machined as part of the shift lever/pedal. The shifter rod from the forward would go to the vertical part of the mid shifter.
Doesn't seem worth the effort and cost for no real advantage.
That said, this can be done and has been done. What I saw was done by modifying the forwards on a bike to accommodate another rod that went back to a home-made bracket for a mid mount footpeg/shifter. It wasn't very well done and the mid-mount had a lot of slop. Better design/construction might've solved the slop.
Seems to me a better way would be to use a through-the-primary mid setup. Might require some serious fabrication. Don't know if a Superglide type inner/outer primary would work on the Softail, but I have my doubts they are the same. If this method was used a shift pedal would have to be fabbed with a vertical lever welded or machined as part of the shift lever/pedal. The shifter rod from the forward would go to the vertical part of the mid shifter.
Doesn't seem worth the effort and cost for no real advantage.
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