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Particle Man 06-05-2009 02:15 PM

Ever unintentionally scrape a peg?
 
I went out for a ride over lunch intending for it to be just a nice, relaxing ride through the back roads...

For the record, I tend to take fairly conservative lines by choice just because. :shrug: I can scrape pegs when I choose, but I tend not to by design

Anyhow, I was riding today and didn't notice that I was riding more and more aggressively to the point where I went into a left hander and scraped my peg without meaning to. Immediately, my mind said STOP and decided to examine what the hell was going on.

UNFORTUNATELY, all of my brain power was focused on reviewing the past events that I blew the NEXT left hander (though I had already slowed down to about 20 or so) and went into the grass briefly before snapping myself out of it and, after a squirly back tire moment, got back on the pavement.

Apparently, I went out more keyed up than I thought.

I'll be keeping an eye out for THAT again going forward! It's safer that way!

Trip 06-05-2009 02:16 PM

no, i had vortex rearsets on mine, if I scrape a peg the rear wheel is coming off the ground and I am going to be sliding across the pavement.

shmike 06-05-2009 02:17 PM

Yep.

In fact, I've never intentionally scraped a peg.

Avatard 06-05-2009 02:21 PM

I have.

I used to race pocket, and the lean angles are ridiculious. I took my Ninja out just to cool down after some warm-ups (wasn't even wearing a helmet...had no intention of "pushing it", I was literally just trying to cool off...) and the next thing I know, I'm scraping peg.

Tmall 06-05-2009 02:30 PM

Nope. I've never scraped peg. Which I find odd.

Negligible strips on rear. Very tiny on front and never touched a peg down. (no feelers however, I removed those)

Archren 06-05-2009 02:34 PM

I scraped a peg once following a guy down Lime Creek Rd... startled the hell out of me. But it only happened the one time on my old F2.

z06boy 06-05-2009 02:50 PM

On a cruiser yes...on a sportbike...no.

the chi 06-05-2009 03:27 PM

Yep! Ended up sliding thru T8 at Jennings...:lol:

marko138 06-05-2009 03:31 PM

Absolutely...with the wife on back.

HokieDNA01 06-05-2009 03:32 PM

I used to scrape pegs on my Ninja 250 all the time but it didn't have a huge amount of ground clearance. I have never scraped a peg on the Gixxer but I came awful close at the Dragon during the rally when I rolled through a tight left hand switchback and drug my toe slider on the pavement. Had my toes up high on the pegs too. Thats what folding pegs and ground feelers are for.


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