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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | I have large hands for a woman, but smaller hands for a man. I find that the reach from my bar to the levers, especially to feather the clutch, is quite a reach, especially in winter gloves. It's not the tension that gets me, just the actual distance. I have broken 2 nails already on trying to grab them (Hush! I don't need no sympathy from the peanut gallery... Hey! Where;s pollo been, after all?) |
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Rapid City, SD | I have pretty decent sized hands and I use the shortest setting on the adjustments. I couldn't understand how big of a hand you would need to use the longer settings. |
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San Antonio, TX | The Clutch is way too far out there. What can be done without bending the stock one? |
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Ruskin, Fl | I put a little bend in mine. I only needed 3/4 of an inch for it to be comfortable. Very easy to do. |
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Brighton, TN | Large hands for a woman, what better to grip with!
The reach from the bar to the lever shouldn't be that far when your sitting on the stool. Maybe you have to move the slot machine closer to the bar.
Feathering the clutch, that just sounds kinky. Leather, feathers, some kind of clutch thingy, wearing winter gloves, oooowwwwweeeeee,, that just sounds fun.
It's not the tension that gets me, just the actual distance. I have been telling women this for years, or is it the other way.
I have broken 2 nails already on trying to grab them. Define "them", maybe not grab so hard, gently with a light scratch is okay, the digging is what hurts, and then you break a nail.
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | pollolittle - 2009-01-06 11:05 AM Large hands for a woman, what better to grip with! The reach from the bar to the lever shouldn't be that far when your sitting on the stool. Maybe you have to move the slot machine closer to the bar. Feathering the clutch, that just sounds kinky. Leather, feathers, some kind of clutch thingy, wearing winter gloves, oooowwwwweeeeee,, that just sounds fun. It's not the tension that gets me, just the actual distance. I have been telling women this for years, or is it the other way. I have broken 2 nails already on trying to grab them. Define "them", maybe not grab so hard, gently with a light scratch is okay, the digging is what hurts, and then you break a nail. Gosh, I've missed you, you little chicken! (Figures you'd catch onto the feathering thing!  )
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Brighton, TN | yep, someone has to, I believe it to be my job in life. When you say little chicken, it just don't sound right anymore. Maybe, I try Pollogrande, that would be a bit better.
Thanks, for the missing you, feathering, leather, kinky person you. |
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LaPorte,Tx. | "Pollo-Rising" put on the shades, he's back!  |
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Brighton, TN | Thank you VisionTex, nice shades.
Did that Georgia Peach git her clutch adjusted properly? Say that with a deep southern drawl. |
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | Dare I say it.... "Sometimes I just want to choke my chicken!" (Pollo Chico?)
 Maybe it would strengthen my poor, little, defenseless hands for the clutch?
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Brighton, TN | After ten years of calling myself, pollolittle, I now know what I should have called myself. El Pollo Chico. Love the pic. Maybe I get that painted on my bike.
Is anybody other than I, chuckling at the statement made above. I feel like a teenager all over again. "Chokin' my Chicken! meant something else.
However, it does seem to give a better grip to the throttle, and increased dexterity for the clutch.
Did you ever get your clutch bent for you? |
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | No, no clutch bending yet. I'm scared to find out the breaking point of this lever (and then the ensuing problems of finding a replacement part....) I was hoping that there was an easy, all ready on the market, fix out there.... I guess I should've put "all pun intended" in the previous post... Mea Culpa Glad you like the pic, so do I.
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Brighton, TN | No I like the innuendo much better. what about the pic on the bike, you think a lumber jack looking fella could pull that off and still be manly. You know, I don't want to get off the bike and do a little skip cause I got a cartoon character on it.
Grab a big screwdriver and put the big end closest to the pin holding the clutch handle and give a little tweak. It ought to move a 1/2 inch or so. It appears to be aluminum so it should have some give. Give it a try, what's another couple of weeks with out riding.
Should be a standard clutch handle but i don't know. But if it was, and it broke you could add more bling with a chrome clutch. Kuhl and Purty! |
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | I don't know, if a big ol' lumber jack looking guy pulled up on a bike with a cartoon looking character painted on it, I'd not be the one fool enough to say something negative to him about it. I guess your only reall question about that, Mr. Chicken, is how many folks are your neck of the pasture are bigger than you, and dumb enough to say something about it? (But then again, I am the one in my store, who tries to sell all of the guys who come in looking for a new helmet a pink on. My logic is, if a guy pulled up next to me wearing a pink helmet, he must be the baddest MoFo on the block and I wouldn't mess with him. I try to tell them that a pink helmet gets you a lot of "Yes Sirs..." It hasn't worked yet, but I'll let you know when my campaign is successful.... But, I did get one of my friends to try one of my helmets on one time....)
I've tried the clutch adjustment knob to no avail. I've had no luck trying to bend it. It could be either my technique, ot maybe I wasn't holding my tongue right. I'll have to get one of the guys at the shop to try it. (Might be like the sauerkraut jar that gave me a fit last night. Both me and my football player son struggled with it. Then, my hubby tried it when he got home from work and it popped right open... )
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Brighton, TN | At least we know who the man of the house is. I'm definitely not one of the bigger 300 pounders on here, but I'm big enough to hold my own in a hen house. hehehehehe. Kinda funny when you say it, about a big 'ol lumber jack and a cartoon character. The more I think about it I like it. It isn't exactly Mr. Badass but I haven't pursued that look anyway, if you couldn't tell from the lumber jack, look.
It's funny, you see plenty of fellas running around with leather, primarily black. I have yet to see a guy with flannel, other than me. I wonder if I could make chicken little look a little lumberjack like. Now that might be funny.
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Jacksonville Florida | Trixie, just put a screw driver handle between the grip and clutch lever and pull away. Clutch lever is some kind of cheap ass aluminum alloy and bends easy. |
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| FOUND THE ANSWER: I too have short finger. Bent the lever and it was a little better, lever was flat against the grip. I was still not happy. Thinking there has to be a way I look at the slave but you can't do much with that. I did find out you can pull it out some to clean & grease the clutch arm at pivot. Took the lever off at the master cylender and pulled the actuator pin out of the rubber boot. I grownd off about 1/8" on the end of it. Put it back together & now I have about an inch of free play. I still have plenty of space left to pull in yet after it disingauges too. If you do it I'd recomend doing a 1/16" @ a time till you get what you want. If you cut off too much you buy a new plungger. (bet they don't sell the plunger by it's self)
There is a down side when you pull it out of the boot, it's a bear to get back in. I had to find me a large straw and cut off about 1.5". then split it down the side, roll it tite to get it in the boot. Then push the pin inside the straw into the boot as far as you can, pull the straw out and the boot pops onto the pin. I had to pull my pin out just a little to get the boot to pop into the groove. |
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| I did this but you want the wrench inward and tape the hell out of the lever. Bend a little and check
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Clinton, CT | Posted elsewhere on this very board but damned if I can find it at the moment...
Long story short is to take a standard screwdriver, use the handle as a pivot point and place near the hydraulic reservoir... Will allow a fulcrum to bend the clutch handle a but but take care not to over-do the adjustment and snap anything!
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Manchester, CT | johnnyvision, thanks for the photo! How far were you able to get the lever to bend? |
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| not sure never measured. Becarefull and bend a little at a time maybe no more then a 1/8" to much clutch will not work and levers are a good $100 bucks |
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