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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 09:05 PM
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At a recent rally I saw a Heritage with a heel shifter that was angled down at the rear allowing for less of lift of the foot to upshift. Has anyone seen these and/or know where I can get one.

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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 09:36 PM
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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!
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 09:48 PM
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Plane- The one I saw was perfect. It was extended length and the peg basically curved off the floorboard so nothing hit the board and looked like it took only a minimal foot lift. Probably custom fabbed; I have not seen anything like it since.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 09:51 PM
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Hell...I'm interested in one of those! Anyone?
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 09:55 PM
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Was this it?


Cool but too much hardware under the foot board.


http://www.eglidegoodies.com/id173.html
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 10:02 PM
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Nope. That's not it. I saw that site before and it won't work with my setup. I really think this was custom because I have not been able to find anything like it anywhere . I'll probably pick up an extended length shifter and try something custom from there.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 10:06 PM
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Here's another. Extended shifter which they say extends the peg off the back of the board

http://doc-walt.com/waltersworkshop.htm
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 10:13 PM
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another possible.

http://sikkshift.com/products.html
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 10:25 PM
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Here's what the extended shift levers look like. Keep in mind mine is a special setup-boards and heel/shift on a Dyna. This shift lever will actually move the peg further back on the softail. Problem with mine was at the lowest comfortable setting, the peg was hitting the board= no shift
 
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Old Sep 5, 2008 | 10:32 PM
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I know what you mean. I adjusted mine to a great position, took off out of the drive way and couldn't shift... bottomed out on the board. The extended shift might solve my problem. Thanks for starting this thread. Opended a new possibility for me.
 
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