'04 R1150R Lower pegs, shifter mod

I find the seat to peg distance to be a bit snug on my knees, so I purchased a peg lowering kit from Suburban Machinery. They also offer a modified shifter (lengthened) for $140. One of the websites stated that only 50% of their customers required the modified shifter.
Guess I'm in the other 50%!
The kit lowers the pegs and moves them forward, the distance at the shifter is only 4" from the peg. The brake side is OK once I adjusted it down, but it was real difficult to get my foot under the shifter. I took a measurement from my K sidecar rig, it also has lowered pegs.

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/Kcomparison.jpg?t=1358020516[/IMG]

I remembered I had scavenged a shifter from my wrecked K bike.

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/shifter005.jpg?t=1358020512[/IMG]

The K shifter attached to the cast arm, so off came the shift peg.

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/shifter009.jpg?t=1358020532[/IMG]

Hole was drilled and tapped

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/shifter011.jpg?t=1358020531[/IMG]

I cut a V into the cast arm to match the back of the K shifter.

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/R1150R013.jpg?t=1358020512[/IMG]

The finished product, within 1/4" of my K bike setup.

[IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w464/Bobmws/shifter012.jpg?t=1358020524[/IMG]

My knees are happy and I can shift comfortably!

I just looked up the shift lever on MAXBMW fiche, HOLY CRAP!
23 41 7 654 519 FOOT LEVER 0.09 1 $110.48
Glad I scavenged and packratted parts from the wrecked bike.......

Very nice work, Bob. It is indeed lovely to have the shift lever tab where it works for your own foot.

I had the same challenge on my R when I lowered the pegs, and ended up fabricating a new shift lever using parts from Touratech and that all-purpose BMW parts source, Ace Hardware. Here's the first installment:
[URL="installment"]http://www.r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=22417[/URL]

[QUOTE=dbrick;849598]Very nice work, Bob. It is indeed lovely to have the shift lever tab where it works for your own foot.

I had the same challenge on my R when I lowered the pegs, and ended up fabricating a new shift lever using parts from Touratech and that all-purpose BMW parts source, Ace Hardware. Here's the first installment:
[URL="installment"]http://www.r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=22417&p=196906#p196906[/URL][/QUOTE]

David,
Yeah, proper ergos make all the difference in the world.
Nice work on adapting your R12R. That link didn't work but I searched the R12R forum and found it [URL="http://www.r1150r.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=22417"]here[/URL]

Thanks. I corrected the original reference.