You know you have been riding for a while ......

[coffee_brake]

When some of your riding buddies live hundreds of miles away.   

Hellyeah!!!

 

[coffee_brake]

When "shifter shine" starts to turn to shifter hole.

Do you really shift with your foot that far under the shifter? I shift with the end of my boot near the toe, not way up on top of my foot.

Bikes are as different as human physiques, BB. Depending on the boot I'm wearing on that trip, and the bike itself, my shift place will change. So will everybody's. Just because my normal shift point is at my mid-big-toe joint, don't mean it's wrong if my buddy shifts with his boot tip, top of his metatarsals, or the side of the sole. Don't matter. Y'hear? don't matter. 

But dont' forget to get that boot out from under the shifter in the twisties, or you'll grab that foot and it will go right under the bike. Darn near broke my left foot on Deal's Gap, I felt so dumb with my bruise for a week after that....

[Hightech84]

I'm not a rider yet(bike build in progress) but I'm sure you older riders have experience this one at some point.

The SOQS asks you to take the cage to work so you can pick something up on your way home and you get really disappointed.

[LOKi]

When your in the cage and it starts to rain it takes you a while to even consider turning on the wind shield wipers. Usually after turning your head to the side doesn't clear the drops.

[LOKi]

When "shifter shine" starts to turn to shifter hole.

Do you really shift with your foot that far under the shifter? I shift with the end of my boot near the toe, not way up on top of my foot.

Then you must have tinny feet.  With the arch of my foot on the peg that is where the sifter falls. Besides if I shifted with my big toe like your suggesting I would have worn through the boot by now instead of wearing a hole in the shifter pad.

[Bumblebee]

Then you must have tinny feet.  With the arch of my foot on the peg that is where the sifter falls. Besides if I shifted with my big toe like your suggesting I would have worn through the boot by now instead of wearing a hole in the shifter pad.

Yea I do. Size 7M. Half the time I buy womens 8.5W which is the same size since kids shoes often stop at 6 and mens adult often starts at 9.5. I often see 12 year old kids in the shoe store way down the row from me getting yeti shoes.

I just notice a lot of riders with their foot really far forward on the pegs, sometimes with their heel on the peg, and the shifter practically at their ankle and nearly dragging their toes on the ground.