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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:56 am
by Brent
Thanks guys for your input. Also are running boards hard to get used to? How so they work? A guy at the dealer said use left heel to upshift and left toe to downshift. Is this correct?
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:05 am
by ZooTech
Floor boards are definitely comfortable...but they touch down too soon for my tastes.
You are correct about the heel/toe shifter...another thing I don't care for. Luckily you can still use it traditionally, too.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:35 am
by dr_bar
Ooooh I like the sexy look of the M50, but I think my first choice would be the C50, the S50 doesn't even come into consideration in my mind.
M50 ......................................................................................................................................................... C50
C50 .......................................................................................................................................................... S50
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:56 am
by iwannadie
i dont like the thing stuck on the sode of the motor covering the jugs though. i herd its easy to rip them off on most bikes, i like to see the motor not some big faux chrome junk covering it up.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:43 am
by ZooTech
The S50 and S83 look a lot different in person (as do most bikes). I never liked the S83 until I sat on one in a showroom.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:51 am
by Brent
So are you saying that you can run the C-50 w/o floorboards? Then I suppose you have to change foot controls?
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:01 am
by iwannadie
Brent wrote:So are you saying that you can run the C-50 w/o floorboards? Then I suppose you have to change foot controls?
the c50 doesnt come with the heal/toe shifter does it? you can have normal gear shifter With floorboards. if it has a normal shifter im sure it would be easy to replace the floorboard with a normal peg using the same control
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:04 am
by Brent
The one I sat on today @ the dealer sure had them. I didn't ask if they were standard equipment. I just assumed they were.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:08 am
by ZooTech
Floorboards and heel/toe shifter are standard on the C50. As for switching them out...well...anything can be done for a price, but if floorboards and heel/toe aren't your style, then neither is the C50. Take a closer look at the S50 and M50.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:09 am
by Sev
You can obviously replace and sell the floorboard separately. A heel/toe shifter is commonly used with floorboards because it becomes difficult to get your toe under the shifter easily. It is in fact possible to use the heal/toe shifter without floorboards.
So you're looking at about $100 more for OEM rider pegs. But you might be able to make up most of that selling the boards on e-bay.
That's assuming you don't want them in the first place.