I dragged my foot peg for the first time!

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jmillheiser · #11 Post by **jmillheiser** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:58 pm

somebody is not getting his butt out of the seat LOL. I thoguht grinding up pegs was a cruiser thing LOL

Mag7C · #12 Post by **Mag7C** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:52 pm

jmillheiser wrote:I thoguht grinding up pegs was a cruiser thing LOL

HEY!

..but yeah, it is

flynrider · #13 Post by **flynrider** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:29 am

jmillheiser wrote: I thoguht grinding up pegs was a cruiser thing LOL

Scraping stuff is mostly a cruiser/standard thing. Sportbike designers usually take high lean angles into account. But not always.

Back in the 80s a Kawasaki rep brought some new bikes out to the track for us to play with. I took the first ride on a Ninja 900 (the original Ninja). As I spent a few laps tearing up the track, I kept feeling a scrape on the tighter turns. When I pulled the bike into the pit, I mentioned to the factory guy that the pegs scraped pretty easily. His eyes started bugging out and when I got off, I noticed that the lower fairing was nearly scraped through on both sides.

He agreed it was due to a bad design and didn't give me much heat. After all, I was just a Novice class racer. Imagine what one of the pros would have done to that fairing

#14 Post by **Big B** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:09 am

i don't know about pegs, but my floorboards are starting to look like "poo poo"

Sculelos · #15 Post by **Sculelos** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:08 pm

Well I've never scraped any pegs on my lightning, but I think it would be pretty hard to get the bike that far over in the first place.

Bubba · #16 Post by **Bubba** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:58 am

sharpmagna wrote:Do you remember the first time you dragged the foot peg?

YEA! SCARED THE CR*P OUT OF ME!
Scared me the second and third time too!

jmillheiser · #17 Post by **jmillheiser** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:12 am

Sculelos wrote:Well I've never scraped any pegs on my lightning, but I think it would be pretty hard to get the bike that far over in the first place.

I think your tires would run out of traction before your lightning scraped a peg. the lightning and firebolt have a factory spec max lean angle of 50 degrees. You would need race tires or REALLY sticky street tires (like pilot powers or metzler M3s) to get much past a 45 degree lean.

CORSCO · #18 Post by **CORSCO** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:47 am

I remeber when I scraped the pegs on my VT500 Ascot. It was great! Scraped them several more times after that.

Never scraped a peg on my F3, just scuffed up my boots pretty well.

I scraped the head pipe on my V-Max one time. After that, I installed stiffer springs and a Gold Valve Emulator!

MotoF150 · #19 Post by **MotoF150** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:40 am

what I did was remove the footpegs and grinded the bottom rough on my electric bench grinder, then reinstalled them, now I show off the bottom of my footpegs to my friends and have them fooled thinking I scraped them on the road.

Andrew13 · #20 Post by **Andrew13** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:08 pm

MotoF150 wrote:what I did was remove the footpegs and grinded the bottom rough on my electric bench grinder, then reinstalled them, now I show off the bottom of my footpegs to my friends and have them fooled thinking I scraped them on the road.

Did you get an "L" tattooed on your forehead too? 'cause that's really cool you know...

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