Hero Blobs - Good for fk all!?

[inlinefour]

Well on the bright side, you did not come off and I'm sure the faring could be repaired, but if you ask me, it adds to the character of the machine. Don't know if I'd do that with a Blackbird, but as I've never riden one, I dont know.

[gav]

Jees Gav, I wish you were there to talk me through things, and I never new pegs were spring loaded.

Is this a state the obvious competition?

Slam over was a figure of speech. But thanks for the useless advice

umm, sorry mate, didnt really mean it to read like that, so how hard did you grind the peg? It is surprising that you managed to scrape the fairing panel as well though if the peg feeler only kissed the road. Honda generally have the longest hero pegs known to man!

[RiderInBlack]

Just My two pence, but are not the Sport tourers like the BB and "Rox" have there pegs lower than the staight Sports bikes and therefore more likely to scape? By the way impressive lean angle on the BB if you scatched the fairrings, BB. One day I might be that brave (stupid?). Bit more skill before I could get close to matching that . Maybe you will have to fit those "Skater Dude Wheels" to your side fairrings like the race riders do

[vifferman]

It might be a function of the corner - like if it had any surface irregularities, or it was an uphill corner, the fairing may have touched momentarily before the 'hero blob' (assuming the peg didn't fold up).

You could install slightly longer 'hero blobs' if you wanted some earlier warning. My bike was missing one when I bought it, and I foolishly neglected to ask the shop to replace the missing one. I thought about just taking the other one off, but decided to replace it.
I went to a fastener shop, asked them what they had, but they didn't have anything like that. So I bought two chrome capnuts, two studs threaded at each end, and two nuts, and made my own for a total cost of $9 (as opposed to $17bazillion for OEM ones). They actually look better, as they're shinier and slightly longer.

[Biff]

umm, sorry mate, didnt really mean it to read like that, so how hard did you grind the peg? It is surprising that you managed to scrape the fairing panel as well though if the peg feeler only kissed the road. Honda generally have the longest hero pegs known to man!

Don't worry Gav. I guess I'm a bit sensitive about this as I don't really know why it happened. I knew I leaned over one hell of a lot, but I'm sure the pegs didn't come up, and if they did, it wasn't by much. The blob is pretty well ground though. Something I wanted to avoid on the Bird as I know it's what potential buyer look for, just to gauge how the bikes been riden.

It might be a function of the corner - like if it had any surface irregularities, or it was an uphill corner, the fairing may have touched momentarily before the 'hero blob' (assuming the peg didn't fold up).

You've made a good point here, and some sound advice on possibly extending the blobs. Although the corner was a downhill hairpin I think there was something odd about the camber on this streatch of the road. I do remember all the Akaroa die hard bikers talking about one tight corner where the camber appears to go the wrong way.

Aaron - ring any bells? I've heard you talk of such a corner a few times.

The blob certainly is long on the Bird. It has to be as the pipes are quite low down on it.

Lesson learnt, limitation of the bike (and myself?) now known.

Sulk over and on to the next ride to Akaroa this afternoon for some investigation.

Note to Biff - You're riding a Sports Tourer. You no longer own a sportsbike. Grow up.

[Dodgyiti]

I had the same thing happen on my CBR, the pipe got scratched and I was spewing as they hit at the same time.
So I removed the bolt and got a longer one[ only by 10mm ] , cut the hrad off and wound that in the hole and a couple of stainless acorn nuts and whacked that on.
Using stainless acorn nuts instead of chrome or anodised steel will stop them rusting when you do touch down and scratch them up.
And when you go to sell it put new nuts on, nice and shiny stainless unscratched Mmmm

[Marmoot]

Have you seen the blob on SP1? Some said they are the longest ever built....

[Funkyfly]

You should have brought that Hayabusa mate. Not too late to trade up.

[scroter]

man get the fairing down. that'll get you big "were not worthys" when your mates see it, they'll be saying "i wish i could do that"

spoils of war mate, spoils of war

[Lou Girardin]

I was giving the Bandit it's post trip wash when I noticed the great chamfer job on the right hand peg. About 10 mm's of metal gone. I wish I could take credit but I can't.
Previous owner must ahve really liked righthanders.

[Biff]

You should have brought that Hayabusa mate. Not too late to trade up.

No thanks, I wanted something that wouldnt disintegrate when the pegs hit the deck.

Have you had your suspension set up for you? I did it made a world of difference.

I haven't had the suspension setup, other than firming up the rebound myself. The problem I now have is that I've had a Givi Monolock system fitted, which makes it almost impossible to get at the rear suspension without removing a ton of scaffolding.

[gav]

Ya wanna get some titanium bolts, good for some decent sparkie action. If your gonna grind your pegs at least some other people may notice!

[カワサキキド]

Cool, battle scars! That bird was to shiney anyway. You just have to do the other side now.

[FROSTY:Me]

[QUOTE=Biff Baff
I haven't had the suspension setup, other than firming up the rebound myself. The problem I now have is that I've had a Givi Monolock system fitted, which makes it almost impossible to get at the rear suspension without removing a ton of scaffolding.[/QUOTE]
That may be your problem mate -right there
Different world I know but on the hairpin at pukie I was lifting the back wheel off the ground with the belly of my fairing.We adjusted the rear shock a bit and it made a huge difference to how far I could lean.
Also as someone else said a mid corner dip could have dropped ya front end and caused that fairing scrape.

[wkid_one]

VTR used to grind the Exhaust Pipe that ran under the sump before the hero pegs touched down. Didn't notice it until someone mentioned it....nearly wore clear through before it was bought to my attention.

HB's are mainly to stop you hitting the leading edge of your slip on and lifting the back wheel off the ground.