-> WC> As a used motorcycle buyer and rider I'd learned to drive
-> WC> motorcycles without brakes to get them across town. 

-> Never rode a motorcycle with no brakes but I did ride with no
-> clutch for awhile. :-) 

On my GS-550 inline 4 I drove it that way for MONTHS once
and it was awfully easy to shift and not be hard on anything.

The TX-650 vertical twin was tough to drive this way so that cable got
replaced within the week.

The 1100 Yamaha was VERY difficult to drive without a clutch cable and
very jerky and lots of clanking I replaced the cable new the next day.

I'm one of those weird people that lubed cables such as clutch, tach
and speedo but still a clutch cable would fray and part at the cluntch
handgrip end due to the flexing there.
Showing my age here, tachs if they exist at all in an age of
electronic rev limiters would be electronic as would be the speedo
and many clutch systems are now hydraulic.

-> WC> You leave LOTS of following distance, you rely primarily on
-> WC> downshifting and engine compression slowing you off
-> WC> throttle and finally a "Flintstones stop"  

-> WC> during the trip believer or not a good bit of prayer no-one
-> WC> else on the road didn't do anything unexpectedly on short
-> WC> notice was a good thing too  

-> WC> Oh yeah, NEVER try it with a two stroke as I guess the reed
-> WC> valves don't provide enough compression braking. 

-> WC> Never could stand or owned a two stroke however, the sound
-> WC> of the things drive me nuts. 

-> Only the rice burners. Older 2 stroke didn't
-> buzz/ring/ding/ding like the rice burners did/do. :-) 

OK, before my experience.
Tom Walker was speaking of the Arial Square 4 which I've actually
seen but never heard fired up.
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