Why would you need to stand on your foot pegs and do you run red lights?

**bosslady** · 30th December 2012, 08:14

Just a couple of questions from some observations I made yesterday... two in one thread, call it multitasking...

1. why would you need to stand on your foot pegs?
Pretty sure when i did my learners test you only needed to stand on your foot pegs when you were going over bumps on the road or something? Yesterday when I was in my cage going up a steep hill near my house I saw a guy on a bike coming down the hill standing on his foot pegs is there a reason for this when coming down a hill?

2. do you run red lights?
I umm observed another (?) biker run a red light yesterday because they waited seriously 5-10 minutes and it just wouldn't trip. I mean what do YOU do in those instances, what can you do really?

**BMWST?** · 30th December 2012, 08:20

i sometimes stand on my footpegs to say get a sight line on a narrow road with a humped one way bridge.
I have done the same thing at a red light.But i make absolutely sure no one sees me.Sometimes if you are able press the pedestrian crossing buttons(for across and parrallel to your path).Place your bike in the centre of the land and or above the grid of wires,Sometimes you can see the grid cut into the road
another time a car came up behind me and i made him go around me

**Subike** · 30th December 2012, 08:20

My answer to the second question,
I have this happen often going to work before 5.30am. one set of local lights does not pic up my bike on its sensor, thus light does not change . So I get off, push the pedestrians cross button, which activates the lights, get back on and magic! lights change for me.
I would not take the risk of crossing a red, even if the way is obviously clear, is there a camera surverying the intersection? am I going to get a ticket in the mail?
As for the ride on the pegs thing, well, there are those better at explaining the virtues / dangers of this. IMO, dont do it till you know you bike a heap lot better girl. Like in say 2 years time.....

**AllanB** · 30th December 2012, 08:21

If you are wearing leathers it is essential to stand on your pegs if you want to let a good fart out. The combination of thick leather and pressure on ones bottom from seating just won't allow the gas to escape. Thus the standing on the pegs.

**huff3r** · 30th December 2012, 08:24

I can trigger the lights on my alloy bicycle. It's all about hitting the right spot in the right way. Stop over the middle of the three tar lines showing where the sensor is, the middle one is more sensitive as it's where the two loops cross. I'm not sure if it helps, but I always carry just a little more speed and come to a slightly more abrupt than normal stop on the line too.

Just be careful when it's when etc, as being tar they are slippery.

**Zamiam** · 30th December 2012, 08:25

1. Common practice for of road riding as you have better control / can move your weight around faster/easier. Wouldn't have thought it necessary on the road. Other possibility is rider was having a stretch

2. Unless the rider wants to wait for a car to trip the detectors they had no option but to do this

**Subike** · 30th December 2012, 08:29

Originally Posted by Zamiam

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2. Unless the rider wants to wait for a car to trip the detectors they had no option but to do this

always an option Z. there is no such thing as a no option situation when it comes to the road. Thats like saying "I had no option but to fall off my bike in front of that truck". Always an option, you just have to find it.

**unstuck** · 30th December 2012, 08:30

Standing on the pegs is good for seeing over peoples fences and hedges.

**unstuck** · 30th December 2012, 08:32

Oh, and I drive trough all lights when im in the big smoke, cos we are just dont have em down here.

**PrincessBandit** · 30th December 2012, 08:38

Question 1: I only stand on my pegs when my backside is getting numb

Question 2: Even on the bandit I've been held up at lights which won't change for me. When it happens relatively late at night I'll often wait a bit then just go, during the day when there are more vehicles around I'll make sure I'm pulled up as far as possible to the painted line and hope a car comes up close enough behind me to trip them. If there's absolutely nothing around I have been known to go through the red and accept the consequences should I get a ticket. Never happened. Yet.

**Kornholio** · 30th December 2012, 08:56

I stand on my pegs when I have the front wheel in the air, great view from up there

**redhat** · 30th December 2012, 09:30

1. I stand up on the pegs when I need a stretch/bum is sore. The DR-Z seat doesn't offer much in terms of long-distance comfort. Could have been me you saw yesterday.

2. I've been in that situation before and if no cars are waiting behind you then there isn't much else you can do...

**george formby** · 30th December 2012, 09:31

The rider may have stood up to allow some air flow around the swannickles. It's muggy out & a build up of gurrup can be most unpleasant. Then again, it may have been a variation of the "I'm a little teapot" position I often see sprot bike riders assume when they are going through town.

**onearmedbandit** · 30th December 2012, 09:59

Putting your side stand down can sometimes trigger the lights, unless all those times for me where coincidence.

Standing on the pegs? I only do that through fast bumpy sections.

**bosslady** · 30th December 2012, 10:01

Originally Posted by AllanB

If you are wearing leathers it is essential to stand on your pegs if you want to let a good fart out. The combination of thick leather and pressure on ones bottom from seating just won't allow the gas to escape. Thus the standing on the pegs.

This literally made me lol