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Old 08-24-2006, 10:37 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by John V View Post
In your first post, you wrote disengaged when you meant engaged, but I get it now .

So the clutch only stays engaged when you're pressing down on it? Does it have a spring to return it to the disengaged position? In other words, do you have to keep the clutch pressed all the time?
In this particular bike, the foot clutch lever looks somewhat like this (part #1):

http://www.jpcycles.com/catalog/2005...talog/0102.htm

There are springs, but they are not really "return" springs, per se. Once you depress the clutch forward to make the bike go, it remains there. To "disengage" the clutch, you have to push the "heel" part down, and again, once you push it down it stays there.

I should've taken a pic of the whole bike, but I was so excited I forgot my digicam in the house.

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