After market frame mounted stick shift?

[peejus]

Hey folks!
So yeah, those frame mounted 3 and five speed shift sticks on the muscle bikes?
Does anyone make reproductions of the things? My Google-fu is weak in searching.

If not... are there any guides out there for a DIY fabrication?

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[Fv2]

Could get one at a swap meet and build from there.
Also, one of the banners here on RRB is a company that makes shifters.
Guess it depends on how deep you want to get into it.

 

[peejus]

About $20 deep, not $200

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[Fv2]

Maybe you can check out what @Big Ape did on a recent build, made for a cool shifter. I'll get you a link to the build thread.

 

[Fv2]

http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/done-done-capt-americas-zenith-fastback.97539/

 

[peejus]

Thanks for the link! That's pretty much what I was thinking about. I just needed a hand visualizing it.

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[Raoul Dude]

Just as @Big_Ape did, there are a lot of ways to convert a "basic" twist shifter to a frame-mounted stick shift:

http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index....hifter-mount-and-stickshift-conversion.66386/

http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/stick-shift-from-grip-shift.63550/

I saw both of those threads and here's my version -- I apparently don't remove as many parts as some people have, so mine are basically just "a twist shifter relocated to the frame, without the 'rubber grip piece' and with a PVC cap and lever added": http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/stick-shift-from-grip-shift.84900/

It's probably not as elegant and takes up slightly more space, but it's pretty easy to do!

 

[peejus]

Nice! This also for a mid 2000's schwinn Jaguar.
I just so happened to have shortened the stock bars so I have some material to work with.

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[peejus]

So here is the solution I came up with folks, thanks for all the advice.
Took a section of scrap handlebar, scalloped the end to sit flush with the cantilever bar, notched to take a screw clamp.
Picked up a $5 seatpost clamp and milled it out to take a 3/8×16 stainless steel nut and bolt.

Took the old grip shifter, removed the boot, installed the seatpost clamp and trimmed the shifter flush with the clamp, then did the same with the mounting bar.

A handlebar plug holds it all together.

Then a old tap handle tops it off.

For future reference 3/8×16 is the universal thread for beer faucet handles.

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[ratcycle]

Or if u got a welder weld a piece of handlebar that would fit that shifter on and then slide your shifter on and tighten down

 

[franconuevo]

....here's my version -- I apparently don't remove as many parts as some people have, so mine are basically just "a twist shifter relocated to the frame, without the 'rubber grip piece' and with a PVC cap and lever added": http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/stick-shift-from-grip-shift.84900/

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Sweet...I like this shifter the best.

franco