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I'm really more of a math whizz...

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bikeguy joe wrote: I'm really more of a math whizz...

All right, then....have at it:

I ride a cruiser with fairly low clearance, so it may be different for your ninja but I found giving a little throttle after you slow down makes it less likely to scrape. A couple times I braked hard to make a turn onto a side road, and scraped the frame. And that was only at about 35mph. One of the bolts down there is all mashed now. On the same corner at the same speed if I ease on the gas just a tiny bit coming out of it the bike doesn't scrape.

as for the math puzzle. the length but not height of the 2 L shapes was changed in relation to the longer length of the red scalene triangle vs the green triangle, but the 2 scalene trianges are the same height therefore creating the gap nesscessary to maintain the scale when the triangles are transposed[/quote]

I have run my tyre all the way out to where it meets the side wall and have never come close to scraping anything. Motorcycles are designed to go around a corner in a lean, so to severely limit that amount of lean with low pegs, pipes etc makes no sense to me at all.

There was a picture I saw of some guy on a HD at the dragon that came unstuck because he appeared to lean so hard on a dragging peg that it took so much weight off the tyres that they simply lost traction.

sounds like you ride a sportbike mint? pretty tough to drag a peg on a sportbike (the advantage of the high mounted pegs).

Looks to be pretty easy on a cruiser, and not super difficult on a standard.

Mintbread wrote:I have run my tyre all the way out to where it meets the side wall and have never come close to scraping anything. Motorcycles are designed to go around a corner in a lean, so to severely limit that amount of lean with low pegs, pipes etc makes no sense to me at all.

I believe nost pegs on bikes are break-away. That is, they bend up when you push on them from the ground up, like when you are leaned over in a corner. Properly designed, they are the first things to drag on the ground, letting you know you're close to the edge of your tires and other stuff is going to scrape soon. It's much better to have that warning than if your centerstand suddenly grinds and lifts weight (thus traction) from your tires, causing you to lowside.

This is why you can get aftermarket hero pegs, they sell them like condoms, in small, large, extra large, and xxlarge and corrospond in direct relation to the size of your testicles. See science and maths all rolled into one.

Skier wrote: I believe nost pegs on bikes are break-away. That is, they bend up when you push on them from the ground up, like when you are leaned over in a corner. Properly designed, they are the first things to drag on the ground, letting you know you're close to the edge of your tires and other stuff is going to scrape soon. It's much better to have that warning than if your centerstand suddenly grinds and lifts weight (thus traction) from your tires, causing you to lowside.

I am aware of the purpose of spring loaded pegs, but the point I was making was relative to cruiser type bikes that limit their cornering clearance making for unnecessarily hairy moments mid corner.
As I said I have never dragged a peg, but I know exactly when my bike is on the edge of its traction. The back end gets a little loose and starts to drift with the lack of rubber on the road which is easily rectified with a little less throttle and a more sedate lean angle.

Oh man Zoo that one's easy- the hole came from scraping whilst leaning real low into the corners!