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Went a little quick round a corner, had to lean more than usual. Scraped my peg and my boot, first time scraping and got both! Wasn't bad but I wasn't really expecting it.
Actually took a chunk out the sole (crusty old boots given to me, soles were kinda rooted anyway). I never noticed it until one day I was riding in the rain and my left foot suddenly felt a bit damp. Taught me to lift my foot. Oh and not to go so quick into certain corners.
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Check where you are placing your feet on the pegs. You should have the ball of your foot on the pegs, and this will definitely reduce the chance of scraping boots. Worst case scenario, your boot gets caught and drags your foot under the peg...Originally Posted by FZR250
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Sure, with some effort it is easily possible to scrape pegs on a sports bike. People say "peg folds" but in reality, while you are cornering (hard), you have a lot of your weight pressure on the leaning footpeg so the peg actually DON'T fold. With some weight pressure on scraping peg, you unload some pressure to the rear tyre; hence can lose grip on the rear (easily). Yes, I've had some fish tailing moments.
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Yeah I got off very lightly that time. I find it uncomfortable to continually ride with the ball of my foot constantly on the pegs, so I move my foot up when I see a corner - not done it since. Lesson learned.
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Peg scraping on a 650 Bandit is pretty standard riding procedure, no need to worry mate. They fold, so slam the bastards down.
They scrape earlier if your wife/boyfriend/rohypnol-filled-slut is fat too, or just near the bike. Suspension made of tasty, tasty cheese.
On proper manly sportbikes pegs only scrape when I am about to get my spine and head down, then up, then down again
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Yet another thing we disagree on.
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On a lot of sports bikes they often have "sissy pegs" (people have other names for them as well) that protrude below the main pegs. Those bits that protrude down are you're first warning that you are starting to run low on ground clearance. People often take them off when they go onto the track.
This next bit is conjecture, and should not be considered "fact" (consider it my "opinion"). Generally you can expect your tyres to hold on up to the point where the sissy pegs start to touch down. If the sissy pegs are removed IMHO you need to step up to a sport style tyre (not sport-touring) so as to be assured the tyres have reasonable traction at those higher lean angles.
I'll leave it up to the person riding the bike to say weather they should be using this much lean angle on the road or not, since obviously they know when they are using the extra lean angle and not me, and what situation that is in.
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would you ride with your heals in the pegs ?
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Different body position to different types of bikes I guess. I wouldn't ride ball on pegs on a Harley.
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Scraping cruiser pegs is really exciting when one discovers that they aren't designed to fold up. Thank you Suzuki Marauder 800 for improving my understanding of what "tripodding" means.
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I would have said there are far too many variables amongst bikes and tyres to actually draw any conclusions. Example 1, lost a feeler when I touched it down on the road on a Blackbird, but didn't reach the edge of the tyre. The feelers will touch down more easily as per my first post, soft suspension, heavy load, heavy rider etc, are all going to bring the feelers closer to the ground without any other changes. Different tyres also have different profiles, so you'll hit their edge sooner or later, depending.
He's not asking about cruisers though. Plenty probably have floorboards too, and those definitely don't fold up.
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Really?
You really should try doing some research first and opening your mouth later.
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The ones I've ridden didn't... Good enough for me, since the thread isn't about cruisers.
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Except that you replied directly to a post that mentioned Harleys.
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