So, I'm on my way home from work tonight, doing about 55 and getting ready to exit the NYS Thruway. I go to slow down and downshift and there is nothing for my foot to shift. The damn shifter has vibrated off the shifter shaft, leaving me only the splined shaft to look down at. I know, it is a Harley and they do vibrate.

Fortunately, the shifter got caught up in the floorboard of my Road King and is hanging there. I pull over and try to put down the jiffy stand, but of course! the shifter is wedged in and pinning the jiffy stand in the up position. A few choice words and I get it out, the jiffy stand down and get off. To my surprise, the bolt is still in the shifter, still can't figure that out. A little effort and the shifter is back on the shaft and I am off to home.

I lost the custom spacer I had been using with the single shifter (the heel shift was removed and stored in the saddlebag, "just in case" Anyway, you might want to check and tighten your shifter up before heading out, you never know...

 

And who was the last person to wrench on that shiffter?

 

Lol, good one there. I noticed last week mine was quite wiggly so put the wrence to it and all is good now.

 

Uh, that would be me But... it was tightened down with blue Locktite.

 

Try using red loctite next time. Been there, done that and learned that blue is not for pegs and shifters; my stock shifter peg had red from the factory FWIW.