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I've often wondered how well their peculiar gear change system worked. It would seem to be OK as long as the engine didn't produce too much torque and all the parts were properly heat treated.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Re: Anybody here ever had a Hodaka?
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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I had one when I was a kid but I don't know what you mean. Geared very low, wheelie machine.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Adjunct
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Combat Wombat
The guy who came up with that name deserves a medal.
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I had a Hodaka 100 Dirt Squirt when I was young. Don't remember anything special about the gear change mechanism. But that thing would go almost anywhere. Even tried to go up a tree one day when I was on it 
09 America, some modifications
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Bar Shake
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Bar Shake
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How'd that work out for you?  
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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3/4 Throttle
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Had a Super Rat,Wombat and Ace 90 cool bikes but worked kinda clunky.The shifting mechanism was a joke mine had issues all the time.
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Re: Anybody here ever had a Hodaka?
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Maybe it's because I was a kid but I don't remember anything clunky or strange about the shifter but I was happy to have anything at the time.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Loquacious
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had a squirt given to me. it was locked up so i'd just sit on it & make vroom,vroom noises.
we should do this every weekend!
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The way their transmission worked was a bit strange. The gears rode on a hollow shaft with holes bored through it at each gear location. There was a bumpy shaft running through the gear shaft and ball bearings dropped in the holes in that shaft were pushed out by the bumpy shaft to engage the selected gear. Not sure how it kept centrifugal force from spinning the rest of the balls out and engaging all the gears.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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3/4 Throttle
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I remember a shifter spring inside the cover that would break and you ended stuck in what ever gear it was in.Its been since 1979 when I worked on one of those! Haha so long ago.
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