How dodgy is scraping foot pegs on sports bike or sports tourer?

[Crasherfromwayback]

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). .

Weight should be on the opp peg as far as I'm concerned.

He's not asking about cruisers though. Plenty probably have floorboards too, and those definitely don't fold up.

Ain't come across a set of floor boards yet that don't fold up sorry mate.

[Katman]

Weight should be on the opp peg as far as I'm concerned.



Ain't come across a set of floor boards yet that don't fold up sorry mate.

Sounds like a classic case of a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sounds like a classic case of a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Well I CAN tell ya that there ain't a whole lot of weight being put through the left peg of this rather heavy beast.

[Taxythingy]

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,

Jeez, been reading too much of Muppet's thread recently? Lay it out there: scraping the feelers is both fast AND safe.



(Except if your bike is orange AND you're riding SH75 AND someone saw you AND said it looked good. Then it might not be.)

[pritch]

Weight should be on the opp peg as far as I'm concerned.

That was my take on it too.

Also re foot placement on the pegs: the ball of the foot on the peg is fine for a short (ish) burst, as in it's "playtime". To do it for a protracted period won't get you anything much except cramp, or worse, deep vein thrombosos. For normal riding arch of foot on pegs is fine.

[Rhys]

Well I CAN tell ya that there ain't a whole lot of weight being put through the left peg of this rather heavy beast.

Fuck A Harley going around a corner

[Crasherfromwayback]

That was my take on it too.

Also re foot placement on the pegs: the ball of the foot on the peg is fine for a short (ish) burst, as in it's "playtime". To do it for a protracted period won't get you anything much except cramp, or worse, deep vein thrombosos. For normal riding arch of foot on pegs is fine.

Agree 100%.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Fuck A Harley going around a corner

Lol. Sure is/was. Mind you...really long shocks on the rear to get it off the ground. They had pretty unlimited ground clearance like that as they're really quite narrow.

[pritch]

Fuck A Harley going around a corner

Hopefully herewith a JPG

[willytheekid]

Hmmm footpegs you say?....So I SHOULDN'T! be standing on the seat then?


ps...I have a spark plug remover for a left foot peg presently ...damn my fat friends!!...anyone got a left hand peg for a VFR750?...I promise not to wear it out LOL

[Metastable]

When you are putting your weight on the inside peg (with our weight over the inside of the corner if you are trying to get your knee down) and the peg hits, does the weight keep your foot on the peg or is it a real 'oh shit' moment ?

You weight the inside of the peg during turn in. In the turn you should be using your outside leg to hold yourself, buy hugging the gas tank with your outside leg ... there should be little weight on the inside peg. If you are mainly weighting the inside peg mid corner and it hits a bump... that could be an oh $#!T moment. Or.... if for whatever reason your ass slips off the seat... then there is a good chance you might just fall off. That won't happen if you are hugging the tank with your outside leg.

[bluninja]

My Suzuki A100 had fixed pegs and I went down a spiral ramp to college each morning and up it each night. The pegs would often touch down, too hard and the back would lift and step out but didn't ever come to grief because of scraping the pegs.

But to sports bikes. I used to have my folding pegs touch down on sports bikes in fast medium tight corners.....then I learned to finish slowing down before the corner and have the throttle opened through the corner. My ground clearance increased and my pegs wouldn't touch down....until after my knee, my calf, and my ankle sliders.

Agree with other posters about weighting the outside peg. Don't even weight the inside on turn in; why would you? it's the counter steering that leans your bike and not your weight distribution. Also weighting the peg to inside and then putting pressure on outside peg once turning means your are pushing off the inside peg and then rapidly transferring your weight across the bike to the other side (whilst leant over). Normally I would expect to position myself on the bike before the corner and maintain that position through the corner so as not to add more work for the suspension.

[Metastable]

Just to clarify... when I said weight the inside peg during turn in.... that's typically where one would do it.... not saying you have to do it. It is a small thing, but it helps, even though it isn't a must do.

[newbie2012]

Thanks all. You've confirmed in my mind that scrapping a peg must take some weight off one of both of your tyres, which can't be a good thing for bike stability while cornering, especially for someone of my novice skills to recover.

I am a bit confused about the different views on inside/outside peg weighting - are some riders saying that you should bias your weight on the outside peg during cornering, or just that you should still have weight on the outside peg ? I've found that putting more weight (but not all my weight) on the inside peg of my rather 'robustly' built GSX650 while getting set up for the corner makes the bike far smoother & easier to counterturn into the corner, plus keeps the bike more upright in wet weather. If I weight the outside peg, I have to move the bars further and lean the bike more to do the same line and speed through the same corner.

[newbie2012]

Start practising....

Or for a more sensible answer see Gremlin's reply above.....

PS that is one awesome picture :-)