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Glenliman
(wheely at the end)
Egli Jr
Egli Godet
(Swiss Egli end of the video)
Glenliman
Egli Jr
Egli Godet
What do you suggest as an alternative Tim?Ah! the start video shows that the Egli has one of those pelvis breaking hip cracking Honda kick start levers with the small splined shafts, horrible things (IMO)
When I bought my Egli it had a standard kickstart which stuck into my leg when riding and made things uncomfortable. Following a suggestion from the section disorganiser who showed me a photo of a folding combined footrest/gearchange I made a crude version of this which I’ve used since. It needs refining but has served quite well. Main problems are the kickstart doesn’t clear the gear-lever, footrest and gear selector lever by enough and I have to be very careful if wearing overtrousers and the pattern AMC kickstart lever which I used for the lower part has bent a little.The original lever with some clever folding foot rest work
I have also built a folding gear lever with an internal spring and 'L' slot as its only the foot piece of the gearchange that gets in the way. Thankfully on the Egli Comet with an AMC box a folding footrest plus a narrow gearchange that will slip above the gear change pivot an option difficult to achive on a twin.
If you are young and lisome you may have no trouble with the Honda one but the spline may not last.
This is the picture Ian showed me. My version is quite crude in comparison but works the same and has worked well enough for some 10k miles for me not to have got on with improving it.As shown to Normski