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[Midnight Rider]

Tried and tried, but just could not get my foot trained to like the heel shifter...I did, however, adjust the toe shifter down a notch on the spline to get it as close to the top of my boot as possible without actually touching all the time.  Maybe it's the angle of how my short a$$ has to sit, and the position of my foot, but lifting my heel to get it on the shifter, and moving the foot back at the same time is just uncomfortable as hell.  Of course, I wear an 8.5 boot, so that make a lot of difference, I'm sure.  Toe shifting has got to be easier on the splines...

No wise cracks about shoe size and any other size either...in my case it's a direct correlation and not a ratio...

[SEULTRA]

Are ya sayin' this thing has a toe shifter?? 

PTL... I've been "heeled"!!

[Talon]

Toe shift only for me, I took the heel shift off, to many years without a heel shift, also gives me more room on the floor boards!

[bigdog257]

Used to be toe but after getting used to the heel I like it.

[Coolbreeze]

Toe only....   I kept getting my high heels tangled in the heel shifter thingie....  (z-coils)    I kinda like te looks of the EZ brake pedal though.  Is it farther out than the stock '05 SEEG unit?  If so, I might just have to revisit the whole issue...   

[TCinVA]

HEEL.  No not the dog...
TC

[Fired00d]

Poll has been added to get a count of what members here use. Please when you get a chance cast a vote so we can see what the majority of us are using. Thanks.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[07 CVO]

Heel shift up, Toe shift down. Cleaner boots this way. Also you don't get mistaken for a Japanese bike rider, as they all have black marks on the top of thier left boot.

Mark

[IronButt]

Heel me in 

[UK Dave]

As most of you guys know, I ride a Dyna.  My feet go to the highway pegs on "take off" so most of the time I heel shift.  It's not the same motion (you guys go down, I go up) but I still heel shift.  Only time I toe shift is when I'm racin'!!!!!!! 

Oh sorry .... going no more than 99.9 mph! 

Speak for yourself there - don't be putting words (or anything else...) in my mouth 

I've been heel shifting since 1984 when I got my Guzzi Cali 2 (first "big" bike)

Cheers

Dave

[Garznhogs]

Toe shift about 99.99% of the time.  I just can't tear myself to take the heel shift lever off though.   
Cheers ,
Red

Yeah, like Red. My toe gets better feedback when putting pressure on the gears before the next upshift.  I put Walter's extended heel shifter on for the halibut.
:-Jerry

[woody]

it felt awkward at first coming from a softy with forward controls, but i find it easier to heel shift then to try and get my toe between the floor board and the front peg

I feel the same. Once you get used to heel shift, it's great. Also saves the top of your boots.

[CVOwner]

Had to take it off immediately, my gunboats are too big!

[iski]

Took a little getting used to at first, but have been heel shifting for years. 

Sometimes ride a bike with forward controls, and I like the heel shifter better.

[ccr]

I've also been heeled.  First bike with heel toe shifter and floorboards, first time off the bat, had to think about the shift.  Only that one time.  Never looked back.  Havn't been on a bike without now for five years, not sure I could learn toe shifting now, but then again, nore do I really want to.  One of the plusses in my opinion to my bike is the floorboards and the heel toe shifter.     To each their own.