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Offline jimg1au

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right hand side gear leaver
« on: January 21, 2016, 09:18:45 PM »
apart from bultacos whet 250cc bike has the gearlever on the rhs i think early dt1s had the option for rhs
4 stroke or two stroke up to pre 90 is ok for a club bike
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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2016, 05:10:28 AM »
My 1976 Ossa MAR has the straight through shaft so you can fit gear lever on both sides, not sure if all models have this
but the basic engine is shared over a lot of models & years

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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2016, 05:28:11 AM »
I think Husqvarna up to about 1971 may have been right hand gearchange , and of course everything British up till early 1970s,
CCM still used the BSA engine till about 1978/79 . I cant think of any newer bikes with RH gear change , but if you must have it then there have been various conversions over the years, some look neat , some look awful. if you can do a bit of engineering then I expect most bikes could be changed with some work

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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2016, 01:19:09 PM »
my RH250 has that option - either right or left.
I can swap left or right but what gets me is (as will be the case at the Nationals) is when the configuration as well as the side changes.
EG
My AJS - Right foot one down 3 up
The mighty Greeves - right foot one up 3 down
the KX left foot - one down 5 up
I don't ride that group that often just for that reason alone..............
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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2016, 01:56:33 PM »
being dyslexic helps, I have no trouble swapping from rh to lh and up / down

Offline Brian Watson

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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2016, 03:28:46 PM »
I've got it bad.. so my pre 65 250 husky.. right hand change.. my 1974 250 Mag ..left hand.. and my pre 78 390 Auto.. no change.. i have been know to go steaming into a corner and try and change down with my foot on the Auto.. riding them all at the one race meeting is a challenge.. ::)

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Re: right hand side gear leaver
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2016, 07:24:47 PM »
 ;D :) still laughing at that with the auto....