foot peg difference

[slipangle]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

Are you guys who are wearing away your pegs really heavy (er, robustly built), riding on lowered suspensions, or just disconnected from your mortality? I'm no MotoGP rider, but I'm no slouch either, but the only times my peg has touched earth was after an unfortunate event in my garage, and a couple of impromptu mud or sand inspired trail naps.

I'm mildly curious as to whether my Rumbux crash bars would touch down before the peg would. I'm probably better off not finding out...

 

[Checkswrecks]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

Are you guys who are wearing away your pegs really heavy (er, robustly built), riding on lowered suspensions, or just disconnected from your mortality? I'm no MotoGP rider, but I'm no slouch either, but the only times my peg has touched earth was after an unfortunate event in my garage, and a couple of impromptu mud or sand inspired trail naps.

I'm mildly curious as to whether my Rumbux crash bars would touch down before the peg would. I'm probably better off not finding out...

Part of it is the tire. I just found that I can take the TKC70 WAAAY past where I'd ride off the shoulder of the Anakee 3 and there was no tread left.

 

[slipangle]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

Part of it is the tire. I just found that I can take the TKC70 WAAAY past where I'd ride off the shoulder of the Anakee 3 and there was no tread left.

I have lots of pristine, untouched real estate left on the corners of my rock hard and squared off Heidenau K60s, and there's no way I'll be intentionally testing the cornering limits of them. Too scary. I had planned on going back to the Metzlers when the Heidenaus finally died, but I'd never scraped pegs while using the Metzlers either. Do you find that the Continentals offer more peg scraping grip than the OEM tires?

 

[squarebore]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

I had a mate ride my bike on a track with the new TKC70 so he could tell me how good or bad they are. He scraped pegs on both sides and took the tyres right to the edge. Even managed some drifting. It was great to watch. He is a very experienced racer and I'm not but I now have confidence in the bike and tyres.

 

[slipangle]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

I had a mate ride my bike on a track with the new TKC70 so he could tell me how good or bad they are. He scraped pegs on both sides and took the tyres right to the edge. Even managed some drifting. It was great to watch. He is a very experienced racer and I'm not but I now have confidence in the bike and tyres.

Thanks for the feedback on the Conti's- that's great to know. It sounds like you have your own tamed, motorbike riding Stig.

 

[squarebore]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

Thanks for the feedback on the Conti's- that's great to know. It sounds like you have your own tamed, motorbike riding Stig.

Yeah he is pretty good. My last bike was a VT1100 and I wasn't confident in it so he took it out and scraped both sides in the wet for me to show me that I was the limitation and not the bike.

 

[wtwill]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

I too found it odd only having feeler on left side. Tab on kick stand is second to touch on that side. On the right the peg hits first then the frame where the peg mounts is next. I have since backed off on corners since noticing the peg mount touching. I am more comfortable turning right. An engineer friend of mine explained to me that a spinning wheel wants to turn left and because of this a right turn is more stable. I don't understand why a wheel wants to turn left, Its just what my friend said.

 

[squarebore]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

I too found it odd only having feeler on left side. Tab on kick stand is second to touch on that side. On the right the peg hits first then the frame where the peg mounts is next. I have since backed off on corners since noticing the peg mount touching. I am more comfortable turning right. An engineer friend of mine explained to me that a spinning wheel wants to turn left and because of this a right turn is more stable. I don't understand why a wheel wants to turn left, Its just what my friend said.

Look up gyroscopic precession. You can also hold up a spinning push bike wheel by the axle and then try and turn it to see what happens. Great experiment.

 

[markjenn]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

An engineer friend of mine explained to me that a spinning wheel wants to turn left and because of this a right turn is more stable. I don't understand why a wheel wants to turn left, Its just what my friend said.

I've never heard this and it doesn't make any sense to me.

That some folks find turning one direction easier than the other has been discussed in numerous articles in the press - the general consensus is that it probably has mostly to do with being right-handed vs. left-handed (or some say whether you're right- or left-eye dominant). There's also road factors involved such as the fact that one direction is always sharper than the other with the sharp-side depending on the convention of which side of the road you drive on. Then there's road crown, sight lines, whether running wide puts you in traffic or the weeds,..... the list of factors goes on and on. Add it all up and some turn better right, others left.

- Mark

 

[Lutsie]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

You get the same sensation from a spinning hard drive, though it is not recommended to play with hard drives while they are spinning.

 

[Judd]

Re: Left Side Only - Peg Feeler

Are you guys who are wearing away your pegs really heavy (er, robustly built), riding on lowered suspensions, or just disconnected from your mortality? I'm no MotoGP rider, but I'm no slouch either, but the only times my peg has touched earth was after an unfortunate event in my garage, and a couple of impromptu mud or sand inspired trail naps.

I'm mildly curious as to whether my Rumbux crash bars would touch down before the peg would. I'm probably better off not finding out...

I bought my 14ES out of state and had a 500 mile ride back home. As soon as I hit some familiar twisties, I found the left side peg feeler. The left side hits fairly early IMO, at least equal to a stock DL650 and much earlier than my modded DL that's been raised 1.5+ inches. The right side isn't as bad but I think it hits too soon also. I want to lower the triples to quicken up the steering but lament loss of cornering clearance. Makes me want to add raising links but I'm a short fugger and if I do that, I'll have to mod the seat to get some reach back. :-\

I will not be getting a Rumbux crash bar for sure!