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View Poll Results: Heel to Toe Shifters--what is your preference?
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Old Jan 8, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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Toe only. Love the extra real estate on the floorboard without the heel shifter on longer rides.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2009 | 02:56 PM
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Both!
 
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Old Jan 12, 2009 | 07:15 PM
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Default Heel shifter

Originally Posted by dhincc
I use both ... and LIKE IT! I would like to move the heel shifter back 3 inches or so though.
Bubba's Brake makes a superb heel shifter. Had one on my 2003 FLHR & loved it. Have one ordered for my 2009 FLRH. Link included, super high quality part!

http://www.bubbasbrake.com/xcart/pro...cat=252&page=1
 
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Old Jan 12, 2009 | 07:40 PM
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Heel and toe here
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 06:57 AM
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Always the first thing to go is the heel shifter,personally like the extra foot space.
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 07:53 AM
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Using both, but if I took the heel one off I'd put the extra lever in the tool pouch in case the other one departed the bike.
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 08:17 AM
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I use the toe heel shifters always.I put the longer ones on and have 14 inches between thempleny of room to move my foot around in....once you get use to using the heel you'll find as I did ...it works well....but to each there own
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 08:32 AM
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toe only, removed the heel shifter
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 09:12 AM
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Toe only, heel shifter in the trash.
 
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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 02:16 PM
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I was accelerating onto a highway onramp one day when my Road King was fairly new...got into my lane and went to step on the heel shifter to kick it into 5th gear...and it was gone. I found myself delighting in the newfound room for greater foot movement and when I got home I took the back arm off the assembly.

A couple of years later I bought a Heritage Springer and that was one of the first things I did to her...remove the rear shifter arm.
 
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