We have the same one on my wife's bike. Very easy to install, should take you all of 20 minutes with hand tools.
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What Did You Do To Your RYKER Today?
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We have the same one on my wife's bike. Very easy to install, should take you all of 20 minutes with hand tools.
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Beanz1
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Wow I love the teeth,absolutely awesome!:congrats:Added some teeth.
Whenever we go somewhere, my wife's Ryker gets more looks than my Road Glide..lol.
Markubis
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I made my own jockey shifter. Actually made a month ago but I wanted to make sure it worked well before I posted. No issues with it and I love it.
Total cost was around $45. The handle and linkage were made from a piece of 3/8 dia steel I got at Home Depot for $6. The Heim joints on the linkage were around $4 each off mcmaster carr. The frame mount is the same that everyone else has been using.
I went with the 3/8 dia rod because it's close to 10mm and it allowed me to use a 10mm die to thread the end of the shifter for a standard knob.
My Heim joints are 1/4-28 male so I tapped the ends of the linkage for them. Looking back now it would have been easier to use the 10mm die and buy 10mm female Heim joints instead. The end of my shifter handle I flattened by heating it up and pounding it with a sledgehammer to get a flattened , flared out end for my mounting hole.
The trickiest part to figure (since there is no welding) was the joint where the linkage connects with the shifter handle. I ended up finding a shaft to shaft clamp that was metric (10mm hole x 6mm hole) that I opened up to fit the shifter handle and a 1/4-20 bolt for my Heim joint on the linkage.
Creative bending came next. I also add a slight bend in the linkage to help everything line up better.
Total cost was around $45. The handle and linkage were made from a piece of 3/8 dia steel I got at Home Depot for $6. The Heim joints on the linkage were around $4 each off mcmaster carr. The frame mount is the same that everyone else has been using.
I went with the 3/8 dia rod because it's close to 10mm and it allowed me to use a 10mm die to thread the end of the shifter for a standard knob.
My Heim joints are 1/4-28 male so I tapped the ends of the linkage for them. Looking back now it would have been easier to use the 10mm die and buy 10mm female Heim joints instead. The end of my shifter handle I flattened by heating it up and pounding it with a sledgehammer to get a flattened , flared out end for my mounting hole.
The trickiest part to figure (since there is no welding) was the joint where the linkage connects with the shifter handle. I ended up finding a shaft to shaft clamp that was metric (10mm hole x 6mm hole) that I opened up to fit the shifter handle and a 1/4-20 bolt for my Heim joint on the linkage.
Creative bending came next. I also add a slight bend in the linkage to help everything line up better.
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Please don't take this as some type of attack, because it isn't. I just don't understand why people make these things, unless they have short legs or leg issues to deal with. Can you explain it to me? Is it just for decoration? The thing I see the most from videos is that people try to pull it straight back and have a hard time. It travels on an arc and once you move your foot on the arc it moves easy peesy. I see people grabbing it with their hands in videos and I can't figure that out, unless they are missing a leg or the leg doesn't work right. Out side of leg issues I can't fathom why, maybe you can enlighten me.
Markubis
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Same as above....knee issues ( three surgeries between the two knees), but also, it was annoying to have to stick the left foot out, find the shifter, and then pull it back. From a mechanical engineers perspective it looks like it was an after thought.
Plus, it's easy and fun to just reach forward and work the jockey shifter back and forth when turning around or backing up.
We put the jockey shifter on my wife's Ryker because she has knee and back issues, hence why she rides a Ryker and not a bike.
However, even if she didn't have physical limitations, I would have installed it. It is a fairy trick piece of kit and you don't see them every day.
If everything in life was strictly utilitarian, the world would be pretty boring.
KnurledNut
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Finished a DIY top case rack.
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