View Poll Results: Heel to Toe Shifters--what is your preference?
Heel and Toe?
332
59.82%
Toe Only
223
40.18%
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Heel to Toe Shifters?
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 298
Likes: 1
From: Florida and East Tennessee
When I first got my 08 FLH I thought I was going to like the heel/toe, but since then my left knee has been killing me........ I Know it is coming from lifting my knee up everytime to shift because if I don't ride it for a couple days my knee quits hurting. I've seen lowering kits, I might go that way. But for now I'm Thinking Toe only
I simply raise my heel a couple of inches and then give a sudden push/stomp down with my heel to shift. I usually stomp it pretty hard. Never had a problem yet with my knee or the shifter.
Road Master
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 914
Likes: 1
From: Republic of Texas
Same here. Why screw up the toe of a good boot when all you have to do is rest your heel lightly on the rear one and let it go down from gravity?
I only have a toe shifter in my Goldwing, and it works fine due to the short travel to shift. My UCs a different animal; the shifter travels a LOT farther for each shift making for quite different ergonomics. I very much like having the option to use my heel when I feel like it, which is frequently.
I only have a toe shifter in my Goldwing, and it works fine due to the short travel to shift. My UCs a different animal; the shifter travels a LOT farther for each shift making for quite different ergonomics. I very much like having the option to use my heel when I feel like it, which is frequently.
Road Master
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 914
Likes: 1
From: Republic of Texas
Get HD pn 33876-07 and you can keep the "heal" shifter AND have the extra space on the floorboard.
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Road Master
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 914
Likes: 1
From: Republic of Texas
I've noticed that too. I wonder how much all the shifter linkage failures are related to stomping down on that rear shifter.
