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Pretty rad.
Is it using a sequential(?) bike shifter? I guess it's light enough to roll backwards if you ever needed to.
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Is it using a sequential(?) bike shifter? I guess it's light enough to roll backwards if you ever needed to.
Yep, it uses the standard bike gearbox, so a 6 speed sequential with no synchros, just a dog shift. You basically just replace the output sprocket with a propshaft adaptor, turn the engine round 90 degrees, and bolt a propshaft to it. The gear shift was originally a fore-aft stick shift, but I converted it to a mechanical paddle shift behind the steering wheel - right hand for down, left hand for up.
The reverse was a biomechanical voice-operated reversing unit. In other words, if we needed to go backwards, @Cycliste would hop out and push the car backwards. Generally only necessary in car parks - the rest of the time a bit of lock, lots of revs and dumping the clutch would soon have you pointing in the opposite direction. It is fairly light - 420kg with fluids.
Brommers
No, I bought it second hand after I wrote off the Fisher Fury that I had built myself. It's got a ZX9R bike engine in it.
Although since I bought my Striker I have replaced the engine (three times), the brakes, the wheels, the bodywork, the dashboard, most of the electrics, the seats and the gear shift system. Apart from the chassis, there's not a lot left that I haven't rebuilt or replaced at some point. This is what it looked like a while back - since then it's had new wheels fitted (black Compomotive CXRs) and a different exhaust can (that one could be heard 5 miles away across open countryside).