So, Scott wanted me to try out his shifter to make sure a random person could install it, before sending them out to all of y’all that preordered them. To be honest, I don’t “need” it. I have a short shifter and it works “fine”. I was going to order one from him though because I feel the plastic on the stock shifter could be a problem in the future and I wanted a backup. I am/was just meh about it.
So he dropped off everything yesterday, gave me a few incites and off I went. We are waiting on a aluminum base to be milled by my friend, so Scott gave me his prototype wood base Just to get it going.
I pulled all the screws in the shifter and blue loctite them in to be sure they don’t loosen. There are new joints for the cables, but I decided to not use them because I figured I would match the new shifter/rods to the existing cable setup that works fine. So I pulled the old shifter and installed the new one. everything works as designed. I made a shift knob out of an old motorcycle “frame slider”. Although it works, it’s a bit bulky.
First impressions it works. The shifting is much more solid, but my old shifter was pretty solid too. Then a friend came over that has never seen the goblin. I took him for a ride and that’s when the shifter shined. The shifts are very crisp and changing gears is more of a “glide” than “hunt”. This thing rocks. This is really a cool shifter.
It does take a little getting use to, with how it works, but it’s a short learning curve. This is much more solid than stock.