On 11/01/2019 12:28, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
newshound wrote:


I've used them as a gear pedal when I was a lad, but they are obviously
a bit awkward to use, and they wreck the end of the shaft.Â* Mind you,
the splines on the pedal shaft never lasted long anyway.

Velocettes had a square shaft.


I once temporarily replaced a throttle twist-grip with a choke lever
which was clearly a very bad thing to do.Â* Fortunately, the roads were
much quieter then.

Seems pretty safe to me. Certainly better than setting the throttle to,
say, 1000 rpm and using the advance/retard lever for finer control.