Footpeg Droppers ?
#1
Posted 14 September 2018 - 01:10 pm
and noticing that, especially if Ive been off the bike for a few days, my hips are objecting for the first mile or so......Standing up, or foot off the peg and straightening my leg forward seems to ease my body into action .........but is anyone aware of either a footpeg dropping mod. or gizmo which might help ?
......Im not given to laying the bike on its side (see: getting old).....so grounding footpegs is not an issue !
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#2
Posted 14 September 2018 - 01:22 pm
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#3
Posted 14 September 2018 - 01:28 pm
I've seen a post here while trawling through hundreds of posts recently of someone who had highway pegs bolted to crash bars
Maybe that is a comfortable solution for motorway rides ?
See this link, posts #8 & #10 http://www.carpe-tdm...=22057&p=212573
Edited by JMC, 14 September 2018 - 01:40 pm.
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#4
Posted 14 September 2018 - 04:37 pm
I put highway pegs on my bike for Spain last year. I had arthouritus in the hip and was very painful otherwise.
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#5
Posted 14 September 2018 - 07:44 pm
Nice job, next for me is a set of crash bars and maybe those pegs too
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#6
Posted 15 September 2018 - 09:16 am
I put highway pegs on my bike for Spain last year. I had arthouritus in the hip and was very painful otherwise.
Drewpy are they held in situ with a bracket around the crash bar tube or welded in place?
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#7
Posted 16 September 2018 - 10:23 am
........Thanks all
........can see those mods working well on relaxed long haul cruising
my stuff tends to be more ‘cut &thrust’ city traffic (dramatic overstatement)
.....so feet in touch with controls feels mandatory
and not sure I can run to the ‘Vario’ option (see ‘Leg Room’)
#8
Posted 16 September 2018 - 05:58 pm
Drewpy are they held in situ with a bracket around the crash bar tube or welded in place?
I used a bracket that just goes round the tube and is clamped to the tube by the footrest post.
I then further modified it by a pop rivet as I could knock it round as time wore on.
works great now
"As I Lay Rubber down to street, I pray for traction I can keep. But if I skid and begin to slide, please dear god protect my ride"
Mods; Oil pressure switch, neoprene rear inner mudguard, scottoiler, highway pegs, fenda extenda, 1999 carbs and airbox, Kais suspension setup, later clutch springs, LED lamps, Metmachex swingarm, Hagon Shock, Oxford heated grips, 4 way fused accessory Bus, 17" 3CV front wheel, Michellin R6 tyres, GPS speedo, 5' ignition advance.
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