This wear Normal or am I doing something horribly wrong?

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Daakuryu

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For reference bike is a 2012 and this is my second season with it. I'm guessing I'm going to have to replace it very soon since my foot slips a bit when I downshift if I am not careful but I'd like to know if there something I can do to reduce the rate at which it's wearing out. (I'm also kinda wondering if someone messed with the bike as I found my license plate bent back a few days ago)

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what riding boots are you wearing?
 
Wear saddles.................kidding!!!


It could be just the way you down shift and the type of footwear you have.

Replacements are cheap and easy.
 
It's rubber, it'll wear, just like the tires. It's probably a $5-10 part.

Just ride it!
 
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SLaP said:
It's rubber, it'll wear, just like the tires. It's probably a $5-10 part.

Just ride it!
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I know it'll wear, just concerned at the speed of the wear. It's like when you're a kid and all your left shoes always die within a few months because part of the sole is all eroded, sure it's wear but it's wear that indicates something may be wrong with your walk.
 
Just rotate the rubber to expose a new side. Or do nothing, it's not a big deal. I've put 1000's of kms on bikes with no rubber at all.
 
GreyGhost said:
Just rotate the rubber to expose a new side. Or do nothing, it's not a big deal. I've put 1000's of kms on bikes with no rubber at all.
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If you rest your feet on the shifter when you're not shifting it could be the culprit of faster wear.
 
I think it's your boots. I do the same thing within 5k km with my current BMW Allround's, never had the issue in ~100k km on the Oxtar's before them.
 
I rode almost an entire season with a Home Depot screw bolted in there instead of a shifter pedal, with some duct tape on it. My laziness didn't pay off. Eventually ended up with a nice hole through my left boot. ... And also a cool 2 hour ride with no shifter pedal when the damn screw finally broke off.
 
Ugur Dinch said:
Resting feet on the shifter would change gears actually.. so that must not be he problem.
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No, I used to rest my foot on the shifter when I first started riding. It was a bad habit. No gears were changed unless I put pressure on the shifter.
 
Its your boots/shoes, your shifting style/technique, or your settings, or even a combination of them. Most manufactures use the exact same rubber part on the shifters, and I have to remove and replace them all the time for powder coating. Its 50/50 half the people wear them out and half look new. I personally do not wear them out that badly that fast, but I dont wear boots and unlike alot of riders I actually adjust my shift and brake lever heights to match my riding position/style....Where as alot of people just ride the bike the way it came from the dealer and dont adjust things that are supposed to be a preference adjustment...Then you get people stripping out 2nd gear because their shift lever is too high and they always miss shift up shifts...

Id take a look at your lever height it may be too high causing you to put excessive pressure on it

Also if you ride into the winter season, the salt from the road can deteriorate rubber parts on your bike like that, it dries them out and they get brittle and fall apart easier...You can tell when the rubber starts to loose its blackness and get hazy and hard.
 
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koma said:
Maybe he only uses 1st gear.
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GreyGhost said:
Just rotate the rubber to expose a new side. Or do nothing, it's not a big deal. I've put 1000's of kms on bikes with no rubber at all.
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I did that after I left work and found the underside was just as worn so now I have it on it's side until I buy a new one.



JohnnyP636 said:
Its your boots/shoes, your shifting style/technique, or your settings, or even a combination of them. Most manufactures use the exact same rubber part on the shifters, and I have to remove and replace them all the time for powder coating. Its 50/50 half the people wear them out and half look new. I personally do not wear them out that badly that fast, but I dont wear boots and unlike alot of riders I actually adjust my shift and brake lever heights to match my riding position/style....Where as alot of people just ride the bike the way it came from the dealer and dont adjust things that are supposed to be a preference adjustment...Then you get people stripping out 2nd gear because their shift lever is too high and they always miss shift up shifts...

Id take a look at your lever height it may be too high causing you to put excessive pressure on it

Also if you ride into the winter season, the salt from the road can deteriorate rubber parts on your bike like that, it dries them out and they get brittle and fall apart easier...You can tell when the rubber starts to loose its blackness and get hazy and hard.
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I did not know you could change the height of those, I will look into it in the future. Thanks for the info.


mxs said:
Another GTAM gem thread ... great read!
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kiwi said:
Yeeep
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Least I'm not posting whiny comments about the "quality" of other peoples posts. :agave:
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