Heel/Toe? Hell, No!

OK, so for the past seven years I drove a Ural Sidecar motorcycle with pegs and heel/toe shifter.  It all made sense.  Heel upshift, toe downshift.  Even had a technique where I would rest the boot tip on the peg to raise the heel for a clean and steady upshift.  Body position was upright and there was a clean vertical line from body through the hip, to the ankle and foot for the shift.

Then, everything changed.  I traded the Ural for a cruiser styled two wheel bike.  Again with heel/toe shifter but this time with floor boards.  All controls are "forward" of the center line.  I struggled with the heel shifter for the upshift.  Finally, I just gave it up and used the toe portion for every shift, up and down, like most cycles on the road.

The heel upshift required removing the entire foot from the floor board to "stomp" on the heel lever. This is most unnatural.  Using just the toe worked fine so the heel lever seemed unnecessary.

In addition, the left foot was constrained in rear placement by the heel lever.  Done and done.

I cut off the heel lever leaving just the toe.