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Old Feb 21, 2025 | 08:20 AM
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Remember guys bolting handles onto the mouse trap to make it a hand clutch??? 80's!!!!
Would come in handy if your clutch cable broke.
 
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Old Feb 21, 2025 | 08:20 AM
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Would come in handy if your clutch cable broke.
That was always the reason given, but really they just thought it looked cool.
 
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Old Feb 21, 2025 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Architect
That was always the reason given, but really they just thought it looked cool.
To each their own I suppose.
 
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Old Feb 21, 2025 | 02:15 PM
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Any other sticker guys around that did not have what i needed
 
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Old Feb 21, 2025 | 08:33 PM
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what was the reasoning for the Police bike to have a tank shift?
 
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Old Feb 22, 2025 | 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by old mago
what was the reasoning for the Police bike to have a tank shift?
The Authorities thought that us young guys wouldn't know how to ride a Tank Shift, hence we wouldn't be able to steal them and take them out for a Joy Ride. They were Wrong!!!
 
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Old Feb 22, 2025 | 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by johnjzjz
Any other sticker guys around that did not have what i needed
Look on line and you will find there are a number of them. A sign shop could do it also, looks like what you need is simple. I had some made for one of my projects but that shop is in Canada, you know the rest of the story.
 
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Old Feb 22, 2025 | 07:47 PM
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I had a woman down south that had everything Harley Indian in stickers but the phone does not work but that might be the floods that happened
 
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I was drinking coffee with a guy fifteen years my senior at “bikes n coffee” this morning, who is originally from Baltimore. In fact, that’s his nickname. He’s in his mid 80’s, still riding a Road Glide, but started out on a knucklehead. Anyway, I was telling him about the project the OP is working on, and wondering why Baltimore PD ordered those bikes with tank shifters.

He said it was because of the rider fatigue of holding the clutch lever on the heavier clutch of those shovelheads, in traffic.

I can neither confirm or deny the accuracy of that statement, but it made sense.
 

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Old Feb 24, 2025 | 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by gonemad
I was drinking coffee with a guy fifteen years my senior at “bikes n coffee” this morning, who is originally from Baltimore. In fact, that’s his nickname. He’s in his mid 80’s, still riding a Road Glide, but started out on a knucklehead. Anyway, I was telling him about the project the OP is working on, and wondering why Baltimore PD ordered those bikes with tank shifters.

He said it was because of the rider fatigue of holding the clutch lever on the heavier clutch of those shovelheads, in traffic.

I can neither confirm or deny the accuracy of that statement, but it made sense.
I can confirm that a proper rocker foot clutch is a pleasure in traffic VS a hand clutch, so it could be a true story.
 
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