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[DSBAAN]

JUST BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK....DID NOT START RIDING YESTERDAY.  RODE TO AND FROM MYRTLE BEACH FALLY RALLY COUPLE WEEKS AGO, ROUND TRIP 350 MILES, WITH NO PROBLEMS.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THEM.

[Twolanerider]

JUST BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK....DID NOT START RIDING YESTERDAY.  RODE TO AND FROM MYRTLE BEACH FALLY RALLY COUPLE WEEKS AGO, ROUND TRIP 350 MILES, WITH NO PROBLEMS.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THEM.

You still didn't answer the question....

C'mon bro, you logged in, made a first post in loud all CAPS to defend something that hadn't really been attacked.  Quit being evasive and answer the one simple and legitimate question.  What happens if you put weight on them?

[DSBAAN]

IN A WORD NOTHING.....YOU LEARN QUICKLY WHERE THE FULCRUM POINT IS

[Twolanerider]

IN A WORD NOTHING.....YOU LEARN QUICKLY WHERE THE FULCRUM POINT IS

Then explain it, based on your experience.  I just looked (again) at the installation instructions.  Weight pushing down somewhere is going to engage rear brakes.  Just as weight applied at some points is going to upshift or downshift (without regard to the ugly shift arm that's added). 

From a seated saddle position we have more leverage pushing slightly forward on the rear brake pedal (as we're not lifting ourselves in the process) than pushing down.  Separately from whether or not one might accidentally apply rear brakes or shift just by stretching out a bit (which I'd still like more clarification on by the way), since applying brakes is now pushing down rather than forward is there a possibility or even a likelihood of raising oneself up out of the saddle a bit in a panic stop?  If so is there a question or concern about raising our personal CG at just he time we'd really not want to do that?  Also, in that same panic stop scenario if a rider simply pushed in panic and pushed with both legs might he inadvertently shift while braking?

If the answer to all of these is no and that it's impossible why is it no and how is it not possible?

You chimed in as the expert to defend this product.  Voiced by the experience of 39 trips to Daytona Beach.  My limited experience can't touch your own.  As only an interested viewer of this product I have but you to rely on to effectively explain it.  Please do.

[DSBAAN]

I GUESS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW WELL THEY WORK IS TO TRY THEM OUT WHICH IS A VERY EXPENSIVE WAY TO GO IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THEM.  INCIDENTALLY, I SOLD MY OLD STUFF ON EBAY FOR ALMOST WHAT THE SETUP COST ME WHICH WAS A BONUS!  ACTUALLY I LIKE THE VERY CLEAN LOOK HERE AND THINK THE SHIFTER ARM IS BETTER LOOKING AND CERTAINLY HAS MUCH BETTER CHROME PLATING THEN THE STOCK HARLEY STUFF.  ONE THING I NEGLECTED TO MENTION IS THE BOARDS ARE AT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANGLE THAN STOCK WHICH MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
REGARDS....DAN BAAN   

[Twolanerider]

I GUESS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FIND OUT HOW WELL THEY WORK IS TO TRY THEM OUT WHICH IS A VERY EXPENSIVE WAY TO GO IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THEM. 

Thanks Dan.  It's not an answer to a single question asked about the product.  But it's answer that would come from someone who liked what he had or was pitching; even if he couldn't really say for sure why.  Sometimes that's the best we can offer or get.  Appreciate the effort.  Will stay with my old familiar brake pedal.

[dartman]

Thanks Dan.  It's not an answer to a single question asked about the product.  But it's answer that would come from someone who liked what he had or was pitching; even if he couldn't really say for sure why.  Sometimes that's the best we can offer or get.  Appreciate the effort.  Will stay with my old familiar brake pedal.

A-Men, im visualizing my trans in pieces after downshifting without the clutch at 80 mph

[Hoist!]

I can see all youze old FD guys going for this!!! You FD guys REALLY KILL ME!!!

Hoist!

[UFO_HOG]

A-Men, im visualizing my trans in pieces after downshifting without the clutch at 80 mph

Just the fact that you could be unknowingly putting pressure on the shifter is enough reason for me to not consider them.

[jettjocky]

Whatever you like, but not for me. 

[Air-Cooled]

Dan,

I appreciate your posting on this. Don't let the naysayers get you down! This is an interesting adaptation, and surely can be adapted to with a little practice. As a traditionalist, I would not go for it, but neither would I trash you for trying something new and giving us your honest report.

[ultrafxr]

Ah, a solution in search of a problem.   

[Zig]

Whooo!  No Way!