shifting problems

jmk865 said:

I am a 75 year old guy. I have a disease called"inclusion body myositis" Basically it's an imuno disease that slowly destroys muscles.....all of them. It is not fatal, but slowly erodes your ability to walk, speak, eat without choking etc. Anyway; in 2013 I had to give up two wheels and I switched to a 1994 Kawasaki Vulcan with a tow-pac. Worked great and kept me riding. Now I am having trouble shifting gears due to inability to raise my left foot (toe) far enough to up-shift.

My question to all of you is : what wuld it take to have an air or electronic shifter to my current ride, and if it would be worth the expense.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

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jmk865 said:

I am a 75 year old guy. I have a disease called"inclusion body myositis" Basically it's an imuno disease that slowly destroys muscles.....all of them. It is not fatal, but slowly erodes your ability to walk, speak, eat without choking etc. Anyway; in 2013 I had to give up two wheels and I switched to a 1994 Kawasaki Vulcan with a tow-pac. Worked great and kept me riding. Now I am having trouble shifting gears due to inability to raise my left foot (toe) far enough to up-shift.

My question to all of you is : what wuld it take to have an air or electronic shifter to my current ride, and if it would be worth the expense.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

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jmk865 said:

After having lost the use of my left foot for shifting as I mentioned in my original post; I looked into and had a heel/toe shifter fabricated and quickly found out I couldn't use that either. I then looked into an electronic shifter( pingle shiftronic style) Way too expensive considering the age of my trike as well as my age) Also looked into a Spyder automatic which would have been great, but even more expensive considering my age and being on fixed income. Considering all of this plus the fact that Illinois required a driving/riding test for people 75 and older and the fact that I likely won't pass either next July I put the trike up for sale and had it sold in three days. New owner picked up the "Blue Goose" Sunday afternoon and took my baby to her new home.

It's gonna take a while to get used to not riding after 61 years.....not happy about all this; but I guess it is what it is.

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ol' school said:

Jim, your last post saddened me. I guess we are headed in that direction sooner or later though. Stick around on Trike Talk and enjoy the company here. There are a lot of good people on this forum.

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