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11-15-2005, 06:16 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild   Join Date: Apr 2005
Bike: 2002 V-Star 650
Location: Winston Salem, NC
Posts: 1,253
|  No More Heel Shifting for Me.
After my meeting with a curb about a week or so ago, I haven't had too much interest in anything more than keeping my cracked ribs from causing me too much pain. Hell I did 4 compressions the other night during a code and thought I would pass out from my inability to draw breath after which a coworker pushed me out of the way and yelled at me for doing more than I should. This weekend however things started feeling more back in place, and it only hurt if I coughed or sneezed or lauged too hard and too long. So being on the mend I decided to give the bike a critical once over and see if I can undo the damage gravity and stupidity made of my bike. Everything was pretty easy to realign and retighten w/ the exception of my heel-toe shifter which was significantly bent enough that a replacement was called for. Or was it? I know some of you guys like the heel shift and all, but frankly I never much cared for it, or even used it. I reckon I'll always be a toe-guy when it comes to upshifting. Now replacing this piece doesn't look too complicated, but then again my engineering aptitude is right up there with grabbing a 15lb sledge to make that square peg fit into that round hole. So intstead of ordering a new shifter I decide to give mine a trim. This way I will have found out, on the cheap, whether or not the lack of upshifting is due to the new angle of the shifter or something a bit more sinister. With this philosophy in mind I borrow a B&D Wizzard from a coworker and hack the heel section right off of my shifter. Damned immpressive little tool. Little discs that will crumble in your hand but when spun up to 23K/RPM will cut metal like the proverbial hot knife through butter. So sans heel section I take the bike out to try out the gearing and low and behold it works. OH HAPPY DAY. My ribs scream with every imperfection in the road, but that won't last forever. So hopefully I can start taking little rides again this week. My first trip will be to the scene of my crime to make that friggin U-turn correctly. |
