I've used these. It's not a full clutch. It uses your stock clutch friction plates. It is a centripetal pressure plate. There are balls on a slope inside the device. When they are spun faster the are forced up the slope and the distance between the two plates expands and pushes on the friction plates to engage motion. At a low speed the there is no pressure and the plates slip just like when you pull the clutch lever in, at high speed the push hard and don't slip. The beauty is the smooth area of slipping the plates in between without needing to use the hand lever. This has many advantageous results in the ICE dirtbike world, not really for an EM though. -Going down steep loose sections you can have front and rear brakes on the hands and keep your feet out off the pegs to keep you from going over and still use the back brake. -Crazy hard climbs you can keep a better grip on the bars, you don't have to be great at working the clutch lever to slip the clutch and the bike will never stall. -You can lock up the back tire without pulling in the clutch or stalling. This matters when you're riding steep downhill trail for 5 miles, your left hand starts to kill from working the clutch. I think a motor lock up is a rare enough situation that you don't need to design the bike for it. -Garret
John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: its an automatic clutch, its slips until you add power. highly rated by the thumper crowd. Anyway, if the motor froze ( as in seized for an ICE) it would freewheel, the tranny would still be connected of course unlike a true freewheel. me, I just use the clutch lever on my Suzuki. Mike wrote: >> this may be wild overkill, but it just occurred to me that the >> Rekluse clutch would solve this problem, IF it fits your tranny. >> http://www.cyclebuy.com/shopping/z-start/z_start_hon.htm >> ( no recommendation for cyclebuy site, they just came up first in a >> google search.) > > But what is it? Does it allow one to shift without using the handle > bar mounted clutch or something? > > Mike --------------------------------- Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.
