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For you local Toro guys who use Super Recyclers as trim mowers:
Toro has introduced a stupid "Iso-Flex" handle on a bunch of the Personal Pace equipped mowers - including my favorite SR4 mowers. (SO FAR I don't think it's on the model with the Honda engine)
I was looking for a cheap mower and decided I'd get the Super Recycler withe the "Toro" engine to save a few bucks over the Honda engine model. That's when I saw the Iso-Flex crap.
Instead of the locking pins popping into one of the two holes to adjust the handle angle, it now rides in a "slot" that allows the handle to move about an inch and a half forward and back, and it rests on a "squishy" rubber bumper. I'm sure it takes some shock out of the handle, but really, I've been using these mowers for almost ten years and have never found vibration or "jarring" to be an issue.
What IS and issue now is that when you get to the end of a run and press down to spin around, instead of the mower immediately pivoting when you push down on the handle, you have to "bottom out" on the squishy bumper before the mower tilts to turn around.
It's not the end of the world, but it DOES make instant turns take a little more time to do.
I don't like it at all.
I found one at my dealer that's a leftover from last season that has the standard handle in use for years and years. I'm going to get it before I'm stuck having to settle for Toro's "improved" handle.
Toro has introduced a stupid "Iso-Flex" handle on a bunch of the Personal Pace equipped mowers - including my favorite SR4 mowers. (SO FAR I don't think it's on the model with the Honda engine)
I was looking for a cheap mower and decided I'd get the Super Recycler withe the "Toro" engine to save a few bucks over the Honda engine model. That's when I saw the Iso-Flex crap.
Instead of the locking pins popping into one of the two holes to adjust the handle angle, it now rides in a "slot" that allows the handle to move about an inch and a half forward and back, and it rests on a "squishy" rubber bumper. I'm sure it takes some shock out of the handle, but really, I've been using these mowers for almost ten years and have never found vibration or "jarring" to be an issue.
What IS and issue now is that when you get to the end of a run and press down to spin around, instead of the mower immediately pivoting when you push down on the handle, you have to "bottom out" on the squishy bumper before the mower tilts to turn around.
It's not the end of the world, but it DOES make instant turns take a little more time to do.
I don't like it at all.
I found one at my dealer that's a leftover from last season that has the standard handle in use for years and years. I'm going to get it before I'm stuck having to settle for Toro's "improved" handle.