| Author | Message | ||
     Ratbuell |
Working on getting the wife's new M2L (2001) set up for her, and I wanted to raise the shifter peg height a little. It has the new Z shifter, not the old boomerang...so looking at my S1W or my S2 was no help. I'm trying to figure out if I have too much angle on the part that bolts to the shifter shaft, or if I'll be OK. It's not an ideal 90 degrees to the linkage coming up from below, but given the (lack of) length on the eylet threads that go into the linkage, it was the only way to get it where I need it. It seems to work fine in the garage, but I couldn't ride it - pouring-ass rain outside. Can someone with a good, happy shift peg position take a pic of their setup for me? I just want to compare angles....thanks  | ||
| Bad_karma |
Here mine just keep in mind it's setup reverse. Joe S3  S1  | ||
| Court |
Joe: Do you need me to overnight an M2 (2001) Service Manual for you to use? If so, let me know and I can send it this evening and get it back after Homecoming. Court | ||
| Ratbuell |
Court - thanks for the offer, but I have one on order already. Ordered it as soon as we'd agreed on a price for the bike  I just want to make sure my angles are OK and aren't going to cause any "surprise" binding, and I want to have more than 3/16" of thread inside the main link. Any less than that, and I'd be afraid of wobble and thread-strip, even with the jamnut. That, and that eyelet looks extremely long and thin when I've got it backed out that far. <sigh> Guess I'll just have to ride it a ton to make sure nothing binds. LOL. Only problem is, the damned thing is too quiet! I have to actually look at the tach to pick my shift points! And Joe - thanks for the pics. If you reverse the image (standard shift), my upper arm (on the shift shaft) is installed rotated...say...one or *maybe* two teeth downward. I have more of a down-angle on it than you do, but nothing appears to be binding. I wish they'd made the short end of the actual shift lever (opposite the end with the toepeg) go straight out, instead of that downward angle... | ||
| Brinnutz |
Joe, Check out the Classifieds, I think I saw a Banke for sale. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Ooh. But...it's a chick's bike. I'd have to get the brake pedal to make it match. Can't go down the road 'lopsided' now....LOL |
