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So I took my wife for a long ride today on Incubus, ended up right at 160 miles. All around town. The ROT Rally is in Austin, along with some say as many as 50,000 motorcycles (mostly Harleys, still, but the population of real motorcycles grows every year). Incubus was cleaned and polished up all pretty and, as usual, got most of the attention and conversation in every group we stopped at.
Everybody had Harleys. I had something cool. Hot chick on the back, too.
Anyway, I installed the floorboards I scored last week thanks to a great tip from Psycoreefer. I like the look and I like they way they feel.
The floorboards came with a toe-heel shifter. I installed it too and rode around the neighborhood yesterday. The shifter works well and I like the placement, although I think it should be called and front and rear heel shifter. But I had gone only a short way and I noticed the position of the shifter had rotated a little. It still shifted, but the position was different. When I pulled it I noticed that PO apparently had the same trouble and a lot of splines are rounded.
You can see from the pictures that this pedal does not have a pinch bolt. It has only a set screw, and that does not line up with the groove on the shift shaft the regular shifter pedal bolt fits through. I can torque the set screw some more, but I don't think tightening it that way would give me the confidence to take the bike far. I used the stock shifter for the ride today and shifting with it, while not difficult, is a bit awkward without the pivot of the stock foot pedal.
This is a nice piece (although it is a lot of metal to hang on the shifter shaft) and I would like to use it. Does anyone know a way to improve the grip of the rounded splines on a piece like this?
Patrick
Everybody had Harleys. I had something cool. Hot chick on the back, too.
Anyway, I installed the floorboards I scored last week thanks to a great tip from Psycoreefer. I like the look and I like they way they feel.
The floorboards came with a toe-heel shifter. I installed it too and rode around the neighborhood yesterday. The shifter works well and I like the placement, although I think it should be called and front and rear heel shifter. But I had gone only a short way and I noticed the position of the shifter had rotated a little. It still shifted, but the position was different. When I pulled it I noticed that PO apparently had the same trouble and a lot of splines are rounded.
You can see from the pictures that this pedal does not have a pinch bolt. It has only a set screw, and that does not line up with the groove on the shift shaft the regular shifter pedal bolt fits through. I can torque the set screw some more, but I don't think tightening it that way would give me the confidence to take the bike far. I used the stock shifter for the ride today and shifting with it, while not difficult, is a bit awkward without the pivot of the stock foot pedal.
This is a nice piece (although it is a lot of metal to hang on the shifter shaft) and I would like to use it. Does anyone know a way to improve the grip of the rounded splines on a piece like this?
Patrick
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