Angled Heel shifter

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Sep 5, 2008 | 10:42 PM

#11

Keeg

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I'll let you know if I come up with any other solutions

Sep 5, 2008 | 10:45 PM

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chromedome

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Going to bet that you where right and what you saw was something fabricated. Can't find anything in my search that sounds like it

Sep 6, 2008 | 07:53 AM

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Heritage07

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Originally Posted by plane

I've never seen one but I sure can understand where you're coming from. After a days shifting with the heel my left hip starts nagging me bigtime to stop shifting.

My problem is after adjusting the shifters I can't upshift easily with the toe anymore so I'm dependent on the heel shifter. I would like to have the choice of going heel or toe.

The stock positions when I bought the bike where geared for toe only. I've readjusted everything and now it's heel only.

There must be a way of making it BOTH!

After trying to force myself to use the rear shifter I found that it was just easier to up and down shift with the toe shifter. The rear shifter has become my neutral finder! Ater down shifting to first coming to a complete stop I take my heal and do a qick pop on the rear shifter to put it in neutral. Once you get the hang of it you will never use your toe shifter to find neutral again.

Sep 6, 2008 | 09:03 AM

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128auto

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I love heel/toe shifting, can't live without it. When I first tried it, it was weird, after a week or 2, doing just fine. It is much easier to find neutral.

Sep 6, 2008 | 05:24 PM

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tk353

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From: Leander Texas

I lowered my stock rear and us it as a heal stop and in the winter i switch to toe/heal shifting. only have to raise the heal 1 inch then i keep the shifter down untill the next upshift. do it is down toe, down heal, up down heal, up down heal and so on.