Anybody have a shifter?

[Wag]

During our ride yesterday, I parked the bike at the breakfast stop and tapped the shifter down one last time to put the bike into first. Didn't notice anything right off.

When I got off, I noticed my shifter had snapped off.

Dammit.

If you have one I can buy from ya, let me knwow and how much it'll cost.

Funny thing is, the rest of the day, I still got in a ton of GREAT twisty riding!

Pics to come up soon!

--Wag--

[05BusaLe]

Well that sux! pm goldenchild he will have one!

[Max Speed]

Mine did that.. easy fix...grind the spot off flat where it snapped off. Find a bolt about the same size at the original shifter shaft. Drill it the same diameter as the bolt. Make sure the bolt is a grade 8 and long enough. With bolt and two nuts and some rubber tube (gas line) you have a fixed shifter. Easy and strong and very cheap!

[Max Speed]

And here is mine... you would have to be looking for it to see its not stock.

[turb06LE240]

I have to aggree with max speed on this one, and you can use colored hose, when I had my blue bike I used blue hose, it looked better than stock...
I used an allen head bolt so it didnt look like a bolt in there, and I cut the blue hose a little longer and squashed it down a little so it was boubled out it looked better than stock.....
Anyway good luck

[limited06busa]

Great idea.

[BA BUSA]

(Max Speed @ Mar. 18 2007,14:46) Mine did that.. easy fix...grind the spot off flat where it snapped off.  Find a bolt about the same size at the original shifter shaft. Drill it the same diameter as the bolt. Make sure the bolt is a grade 8 and long enough. With bolt and two nuts and some rubber tube (gas line) you have a fixed shifter. Easy and strong and very cheap!

Grade 5 will work just fine...just don't use the standard Home Depot hardware

[Max Speed]

sorry Im known for being Mr. over kill around my friends....

[Max Speed]

It just pissed me off when the shifter broke on me in the rain (weather man said going to be a nice day) about 50 miles from home. It was hell shifting like that and it was all stop and go, I hit every red light that day. Grade 8 is sure not to bust off in my book... and yes over kill.

[turb06LE240]

I used them s/s bolts from NAPA they werent cheap, like $5 for everything....

[Charlesbusa]

Gotta be more careful with that big ol'hoof bro  

[Wag]

Careful and me go together like oil and water.

Nice tip, Max. Appreciate it.

--Wag--

[bacharles]

Mine did the same thing that Max Speed's did... and yours also. And I made the same fix that Max Speed did. Nut and bolt and used the same rubber. Good as new. I rode like this for a couple years before getting a chrome shifter. I don't know, but I may have one somewhere. I will have to look for it though.

[tinbender0]

Dayum thats messed up, wonder how the thing just snaps off like that