Something tells me that in a few years there will be a pile of ricers that will have some pretty sad rotator cuffs and they will have no clue what caused the problems. If at work I could punch it up and give a risk rating but I know that it would be at the top of the scale and probably exceeds all OSHA guidelines if it was your job. Add the highly repetitive nature of shifting and you increase the risk factor by a huge level. If you do it right you will feel a pull in your shoulder. Place your arm at shift lever height and position and then lift it 10"s straight up. A short shifter keeps your arm lower, the elbow closer to the body and your wrist and shoulder in a reasonably neutral position.Įvery inch you raise that contact point on the shifter you raise the arm, force the elbow out, angle the wrist and shoulder. Leverage and shift travel aside let's look at the ergonomics involved. Spend money on it if you don't like it, you can try and sell it. Preformance wise you'll be going backwards. Then again how weak of vegan 10 year old girl do you have to be to need the extra strength to shif gears? The time you spend traving the added distance is the trade off. Yes the you'll have easier time shifting because of the leverage. Like you said, it was intended to keep the stick close to the wheel. It's not actually being thrown like a standard transmission is. I also think what they're forgetting is that those lever style shift "knobs" were on sequential transmissions that only require bumping the stick forward or back. Unless you have a super short throw lever to go with it. Simple mathematics would tell you it's a bad idea. So instead of moving it less than an inch your hitting your stereo with those things. What the ricers forgot it was connects to a custom super short throw lever. The idea came from rally racing where they had long shift knobs so your hand was as close the steering wheel at all times. You mean a long stick style shift knob, like this
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