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    Quote Originally Posted by AD345 View Post
    I use it on the 1634 all the time. 's good
    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Yeah Bruce - I hears ya.
    6 speed gearboxes on cruiser motorcycles with engines larger than a small car I find to be a PITA.
    I use it on the 1731 often, esp with the Maniototo Plains beckoning on my doorstep. PUTT PUTT PUTT, ooh, 2500 rpm, I could lose my license, whatever am I thinking!

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    Just ride the bloody thing Bruce & stop asking so many questions
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    The lazy Thunderbird does around 2400rpm in 6th. Good for about 1 million mpg. Use it on Longggg straights.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ukusa View Post
    The lazy Thunderbird does around 2400rpm in 6th. Good for about 1 million mpg. Use it on Longggg straights.
    Whilst you try to suppress that feeling you should've bought a Harley...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Molly View Post
    Whilst you try to suppress that feeling you should've bought a Harley...
    the thought was there very briefly
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Rocket would make a great 2 speed auto.
    Maybe 3 - but yeah, the gear ratios could easily use being a bit more spaced. 3 + OD as a manual would be nice.

    I find I sit in 3rd in town, and 5th on the road, and everything else is just a transition to those.

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    I have the VL1700 Vulcan at the moment.
    It will launch in 3rd, quite comfortably in second.

    I tell you something else I'm beginning to dislike a bit on cruisers. Heel shifters. I've had a few...not drastic, but...uncomfortable moments by inadvertently knocking one into neutral with the heel shift - usually just after a stop for a left hand turn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post


    I tell you something else I'm beginning to dislike a bit on cruisers. Heel shifters. I've had a few...not drastic, but...uncomfortable moments by inadvertently knocking one into neutral with the heel shift - usually just after a stop for a left hand turn.
    Once your use to them, there fine.Unless you have real big feet too...LOL
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    Heel shifters: once I replaced the heel shifter lever on my Ultra with one that didn't have a stuffed spline, so I could set it to a useful angle, it was great. Never hit it inadvertently, it sat nicely just behind the heel and low enough that I didn't have to raise my foot a mile to activate it. Note that the default factory position for HD's heel shifters seems to be a good half-mile above the floorboard, and are greatly enhanced by some tweaking.

    The heel shifter on my R3T is a bit different - the height's good, but it sits just behind the floorboard rather than on it. So there's quite a bit of foot travel from the toe shifter to the heel. I have also knocked it a couple of times trying to get the side-stand up or down[1], knocking the bike out of neutral. So far that's only been a PITA resulting in a stalled bike rather than anything more serious, but I'm a bit wary of that heel shifter now.

    [1] The R3T's side stand is a bit of an arse trying to retrieve from underneath the floorboard. Frankly, other cruiser brands could learn a lot by studying HD's jiffy stand, which was a revelation. While I had the Ultra I used to mock friends for whingeing about their inability to park their bikes facing downhill - something that occurs completely without drama on a Harley, without having to turn the engine off and leave it in gear or any similar foolishness. Great for dealing with gates on rural driveways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Taylor View Post
    Once your use to them, there fine.Unless you have real big feet too...LOL
    Yeah - size US 12s - My boy takes 14s!

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    US 13s.

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    When I read the last few posts I had to think: "Has my Softail Classic got a heel shifter?" I honestly couldn't remember. Anyway, seems it has. Shows how much use it gets. Never used them on my Road Kings either.

    Maybe for safety's sake I should take it off... I have a vague memory of getting the end of my jeans caught in one once (still, most of my memories are vague these days).

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    I suggest Dropping a baker 6 speed in. My dad has a 2001 road king (5 gears stock) and we 'dropped' a Six-speed in over the winter break. Check out Bakers site they are the choice of the custom bike builders and I can see why. It drops RPM by about 2k and fith/six is super quiet unlike the h-d gears box..

    I high;y reccomend you look into Baker if your looking for a 'better experance' the your current H-D gear box..

    ~Jack

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    Nothing better than getting on that open road, feet on those forward controls sitting on around 120km's with the old girl in 6th. they will tractor along all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xknuts View Post
    I use it on the 1731 often, esp with the Maniototo Plains beckoning on my doorstep. PUTT PUTT PUTT, ooh, 2500 rpm, I could lose my license, whatever am I thinking!
    On the 1450 the revs are about just a tad above what you mention - when I'm doing 100kph and in 5th.

    6th is really not needed in NZ IMHO..
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