Okay, Jason - here's my 2 cents.
Got it, used it alot early, less now. My SM is my first bike ever, and I thought the rocker would be great. It allows you to step down on the rear end of the shift lever to see-saw the front end up. (It's commonly called a heel-toe shifter.) I have a calcium deposit on top of my big left toe, and riding 3-wheelers, 4-wheelers in the past, and the Honda Shadow 250 in my MSA class last Spring, that toe bothered me. I now have nearly 6000 miles on my SM, and I use the "heel" end of the shifter less and less, and the toe has never bothered me on my bike. Of course now I wear good boots mean't for riding motorcycles, too, so they may be better padded on top of that toe than anything I used to wear.
I have heard that the shift lever can be adjusted on the splines, allowing more toe room between it and the peg. Also read, just this week on another post here, that doing so may cause a change in the shift points, so mark the original position before you change anything.
Also, have heard that if you get or have the floorboards, the rocker lever may impinge on your available footroom on the left board, depending on how big your foot is, of course.
Another caution - my jeans bottom gets caught up around the heel-end of the rocker lever, making it a dangerous chore to get my foot off the peg when coming to a stop. I have experienced this happening in a blink of an eye, even just after having put my foot back up on the peg. Has me preferring to wear tapered leg jeans now, instead of my Levi's 501s. Even the straight leg of the 501s has enough loose fabric to get caught up on that shift lever. Thinking about some sort of a strap I could wrap around my jeans at the boot-top, to keep that from happening. That's real fun when you realize you can't get loose and your almost stopped!
If I were ever to add the floorboards, I will probably take my rocker off for the extra footroom. Either way, I am just as interested in adjusting that lever for more toe room above the peg - and anybody else's thoughts on that, too, would be welcome here.
