View Poll Results: do you use heel shifter?
yes
678
58.55%
no
381
32.90%
sometimes
99
8.55%
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do you use heel shifter?
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2006
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From: The Burgh
I use it all the time. Only way to not scuff my $1,200 custom alligator riding boots. <g>
Last edited by frenchbiker; Oct 30, 2010 at 09:16 AM.
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Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Ontario, Canada
I have Ezy Shift levers for front and rear and board extenders as well as aftermarket boards. This allows me to comfortably move my feet around the whole board as well as use the heel and toe shifter as they were meant to be used, heel upshift, toe downshift. Much less movement of the feet.
Mine are both 1" over stock and set as low as they can be.
Road Warrior
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 1,268
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From: Detroit, the asshole of America
I've gone back and forth with mine. Wearing boots I don't like it confining me to one specific board position. All I use it for is shifting to neutral, and if my clutch is adjusted right I can find neutral with the toe shifter anyway, so I've semi-permanently left it off.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,507
Likes: 23
From: Orange County Texas
Harley's were made to be stomped into submission!
After two years on my first Harley I wouldn't know any other way to shift. I had 14 motorcycles over the course of my life and all but the harley were toe shifters. It took a little while to get use to but I wouldn't have it any other way now.
If I had to get on jap bike and drive it my left foot would know what to do with only one shifter.
After two years on my first Harley I wouldn't know any other way to shift. I had 14 motorcycles over the course of my life and all but the harley were toe shifters. It took a little while to get use to but I wouldn't have it any other way now.
If I had to get on jap bike and drive it my left foot would know what to do with only one shifter.
Road Warrior
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,442
Likes: 8
From: south
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