Vohland running a left hand rear brake for SX; how to …

Maybe...DON'T come back to race if you aren't ready?....just a thought.

It’s likely he’ll never get full feeling back in his foot. If this brake set up allows him to safely control the bike and he has the speed there’s absolutely nothing wrong with him racing. 

Why are the anti-snowflakes always the biggest snowflakes. 

I had a pretty bad hip fracture and distal femur (close to knee) 10 years ago and I still and will always have nerve damage. Mine resolved from an entire foot to basically only the big toe/inner part of left foot that's control by the anterior tidia muscle. 

It went from total foot drop to to a very weak doral flexion of my foot. I can no longer shift. Boots are usually stiff enough I can just hook shifter with boot and pull leg up to shift (Honda's seem to have the easiest to shift for me). My grandson's 250f gasgas I can't, I just have to heel shift. 

I hope Max can get his full feeling/strength back. I was told you will get all you gonna get within the first two year after that it's permanent. It was right around that time frame. I hope the kid the best nerve damage is no joke. All that broken stuff along with broke ribs and a ruptured bladder were good to go after about 5 months (non-weight bearing for 4 months). 

The bone pain pretty much gone after the repair but that fucking nerve damage seriously considering cutting it off for about two months. It burned soo bad.

Kudos on Max for adapting. I'm just curious how good he can adapt to something like this so fast. It's not like up doing weekend riding. This is the very top of heap. Things happen so fast while racing.  Good luck kid!!

My comment is following the safety aspect. If he can do it as good as his foot brake, fine. But if its sketchy as hell once he's in a race scenario, just STOP.

I have a 1968 BSA 441 that he could probably rip on!  🤣

Alright well why are you freaking out before we’ve even seen a race yet??

Why not just use a thumb brake for the rear?  Seems like it would be way easier to use and less confusing

Why don’t we defer to the rider who has probably tried different set ups?

Why are you assuming I'm "freaking out"? I was just stating an opinion Bud... No EMOTION was in that comment.

The human brain is awesome at adaptation; Vohland will be just fine after enough practice with the setup. 

I knew a guy named Sean who had a prosthetic left foot. He couldn't shift his CR250 for obvious reasons, so he punched the shift shaft out the right side of the cases and made it a right-foot shifter. He then ran the rear brake in the same place as Vohland's bike. It worked just fine for him, and he was fast! 

As for the boots, I have the same problem. The only reason my little bird legs don't bang around in my boots like a stick in a trash can is because I wear big, bulky knee/shin guards. 

...that was A LOT of CAPITALIZATION... and PUNCTUATION! For a comment that was devoid of EMOTION?

Your entire posting history is pretty full of emotion. And Maybe because you were being suggesting he stop or not even come back. And all the capitalization of DON’T and STOP suggests some emotion.  

Right side shift and left side rear brake. 
I had a ‘68 Triumph Bonneville

lol yes exactly.  I physically shuddered when I read that.

One video segment from the Clubmx vids you can see no rear pedal with the handbrake

Using one finger on the clutch and one finger on the brake. How is this even a question. Are you all using all your finger on the clutch?

Kenny Zahrt ran this type of setup for years and still hauled ass. First guy I had ever seen run it. Sitting on his bike as a kid, it always looked weird and I wondered how he was still able to ride the way he did.

Hope to see Max running up front this year.

As a Tall rider that has bad feet and could never get the shifter or brake pedal in a comfortable spot that wasn't a compromise in many positions. I'm a fan of seeing stuff like this. It might open up riding to people who had no idea that it was possible to adapt the bike like that with a rear hand brake. 

I was looking at air shifters from street bikes. Like what Doug Henry ended up doing for a bit. But then I developed a bad infection that took a very long time to fix. Now I have a totally fused foot, ankle is not fused but all the other joints are. I have an RMZ that I never ride, I keep thinking of converting it to electric or I would love a Varg. And running a hand rear brake. But life and helping my mother recover from a big injury have halted any possibility of riding for now.  

On the 84 CR500 at the end of a 50 miler? Yes.

Sometimes both hands. 🤣