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Okay...don't get to far ahead of our self. But if you do scrape....make sure do do not look down!!!!! Since you are going to scrape in a turn...if you look down to see what the noise was...you might go down....right where you looked..........

And yes I am one of those sick riders...I love to hear my floor boards scrape....it makes me smile.....

Locopez wrote:Okay...don't get to far ahead of our self. But if you do scrape....make sure do do not look down!!!!! Since you are going to scrape in a turn...if you look down to see what the noise was...you might go down....right where you looked..........

And yes I am one of those sick riders...I love to hear my floor boards scrape....it makes me smile.....

+1, there are several turns on my daily commute where i'm surprised if i don't drag the floorboards

Sorry got disconnected for a while.

Thanks for all the tips guys.

I guess I need not concern myself about it just yet. Will ask again after I get the license and a few k miles under my belt [/quote]

Big B wrote:+1, there are several turns on my daily commute where i'm surprised if i don't drag the floorboards

+2

Except change "floorboards" to "pegs, peg brackets, kickstand, and exhaust"!

is that how your pipes sound so mean Zoo? by grinding a big hole in the bottom of them?

bok wrote:is that how your pipes sound so mean Zoo? by grinding a big hole in the bottom of them?

Hey...five more HP is five more HP!

I think we have the same camera.

What do you mean by the tightest turn possible?

Dont worry about dragging a peg. You need to work on going slow and bieng smoothe. Just remember slow is smoothe and smoothe is fast.

i dont' know why people are being so condescending saying you are jumping the gun thinking about this. on my MSF course 2 weekends ago I along with a few others ended out scraping the pegs on the bikes we were using. I'll admit, if you're asking on a sportbike then you're getting way ahead of yourself, but on a cruiser you don't need to be riding THAT agressively to get a little scrape in there.

just be prepared for it when you're really leaning into a turn and don't let up on the turn as I did the first time I dragged a peg!! (i.e. it's actually a good idea, in my opinion, if you'd get a scrape or two in there in a riding lesson on a closed course / parking lot so if it happens on the road you know how to react)

hehe when i help out teaching and i hear someone grind the pegs, i call them over, tell them good job, and ask them not to do too much of that instead of learning the excersises, also so that other students don't try to ride over their abilities and crash out while trying to duplicate what one student was able to do.

it's really easy to grind them on an Eliminator and you should see the smiles when they can do it on command...that is after the "oh no!" look the first time they do it.