I have a couple Condors, one in garage and one in trailer. They both have the textured shoe, but I had another earlier model with the coated shoe as well. I have never had a problem getting the bike out of the chock. Are you guys that experience so much resistance sure you have the pin in the correct hole for your tire/wheel size? And I am totally confused by the comment regarding wires in handle bars being a problem with a Condor??? What?? I had wires in handlebars 30 years ago, this is not something specific to CVO bikes, but what does getting a bike out of a chock have to do with internal wires. Huh?
The pin location for the Touring Bikes with a 130/16 is pin hole 2. They state in the manual to use the hole where the front of the cradle just doesn't touch the ground with the wheel engaged. And yes, the reason why they abandoned the vinyl wrapped craddle was the vinyl over time would stick to the tire making it tougher to disengage. Going with the Krinkle finish solved this. Ask the Condor folks about this.
Lastly, the area where the hole is drilled in the CVO handle bars for the internal wiring is a weak point in the handle bars, and even under normal use, the handlebars could crack there. Harley was aware of the situation which is why they developed the new one-piece top handlebar mount that I believe came stock on the 2009+ bikes. The situation is, with the older bikes with the internal wiring and the old two-piece mounts, the tugging you have to do to pull the bike out of the Condors was putting alot of extra stress on the bars in that area, which is what caused mine to crack in the center along the hole for the wiring. I mounted my Condor to my SAM 2, and used the lift to park my bike. As such, I was tugging it out of the Condor every time, and after a few months I noticed the tell-tails signs of the lower dash was popping out of the inner fairing.
I pulled the amp and radio, and it is definitely cracked on the front center of the bar. I was hoping I could just put a couple of welds in there, and swap to the one-piece mount, as I really don't want to get through the hassle of swapping bars. However, I'm not real confident that this route will hold up even if I don't melt the crap out of the wires. Sucks.
I hope this better explains the situation.