View Poll Results: Do You Give A Shift????

Yes Heel Shifter

238

58.05%

No Heel Shifter

172

41.95%

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Jul 12, 2010 | 09:48 AM

#71

vickers1

Road Warrior

Joined: Jun 2006

Posts: 1,993

Likes: 20

From: Southeast GA

Quote:

Originally Posted by SICKBAGGER

To see how many use there heel shifters or not I posted this to see what the consensus is. I don't use it after all of my years of riding and never had one from the age of 3 until I got my ultra classic and that was the first thing to come off 5 minutes into the garage. I need the room to move around and only shift the only way I have learned.

Question for a Sunday evening just is how many have there heel shifter on and how many of you don't?

I've got you beat. Had mine off in 3 1/2 minutes. LOL

Jul 12, 2010 | 10:06 AM

#72

CW4_131A

Road Captain

Joined: Sep 2006

Posts: 676

Likes: 1

From: NOVA

Off, gone, vamoose!
Wife gets a new scoot (after riding with me for 6 years) and says, "what's that thing? (pointing to the rear shifter)", "I don't like it".
So it's off, gone, vamoose!

Jul 12, 2010 | 10:12 AM

#73

iclick

Extreme HDF Member

Joined: Sep 2005

Posts: 11,615

Likes: 50

From: Baton Rouge, LA

Heel shifter is the first thing that comes off a new bike. I much prefer the extra floorboard room than being able to use my heel to shift, especially since my toe is perfectly competent to do the job. I like it this way, just like I like manual-shift cars and will never own one with a slush-box.

Last edited by iclick; Jul 12, 2010 at 10:16 AM.

Jul 12, 2010 | 10:14 AM

#74

BigGdawg

Club Member

Joined: Nov 2008

Posts: 5,481

Likes: 4

From: Georgia

All my shift movements go down. Down - down down down down down and Down - down down down down down whether up or down shifting. I like using both shifters.

Jul 12, 2010 | 10:28 AM

#75

jdhickm

Intermediate

Joined: Aug 2008

Posts: 33

Likes: 13

From: So. New Jersey

Took a couple of days to get used to it, but I use the heel shifter all the time, wouldn't be without it now. I've never felt that I needed more room on the foot board either, after 14,000 miles. Just sayin.