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I can’t seem to drag my peg. Can you?

Do you drag your pegs?

  • Never

    Votes: 9 64.3%

  • All the time, man! You are a chicken!

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • It takes work, but yes

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • My pegs are ground away, now I drag my feet.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    14
Michael Boeglin

Michael Boeglin

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I ride in Washington state on very, very twisty roads. I’m not a super aggressive rider but I do attack corners with everything I think I’ve got. After a year of trying, I cannot seem to drag the peg on my ‘13 V7. Am I just way more conservative a rider than I think I am, or does this bike have a lot of lean angle? I look at the wear lines on my tires and I see about 1/2 an inch unworn.
 
If you have a half inch of chicken strip on the back tire, you aren't there yet. Try it on a race track and see what you can do. Check with the local clubs to see if they have track days, or better yet attend a track school.
 
Seriously don't be concerned about not scraping parts.
Ride your ride & be happy & safe.

It's a good thing to know your limitations but it's a hard & expensive lesson to learn on the street.

As John Z. suggested you might want to try a track school or pick up a raggedy old dirt bike & hit a gravel pit.
Learn to slide & pull out of a slide, lock up the rear brake, do donuts, jack a wheelie, take a jump.......
Builds confidence & skills.

The funny thing about this post is I just realized this past week that I haven't scraped any parts for the past year or so.
That being said on the rare occasion I ride with others I'm still the lead dog & waiting at stop signs......
You don't always have to be scraping parts to be fast thru the corners.
 
Trout said:
The funny thing about this post is I just realized this past week that I haven't scraped any parts for the past year or so.
That being said on the rare occasion I ride with others I'm still the lead dog & waiting at stop signs......
You don't always have to be scraping parts to be fast thru the corners.
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A well made point.

I also find that when I'm scraping parts it's often because I have miscalculated and find myself needing to over correct ~ or something along those lines. ...not exactly that, but something like that.
In other words: In the situations where I scrape something I typically have the feeling that I could have taken the turn just as well, if not better and smoother, had I approached it better.

But I say that after noting that I have made efforts to eliminate the parts on my bike that would have scraped too early.
I wouldn't put the pegs in that category.
 
well I haven't touched down on either the 2015 or the 17. the 17 has the Conti radials and I just did 310 miles of N. Ga and the Cherohala skyway yesterday. the tires are scared to the edge of the tread but the Contis have less side tread than a normal radial.
 
My Cal 2 has ground floorboards, that was from 88 before the sidecar. My 1st SP and LM3 all had ground pegs. Sometimes it just happens.
 
vagrant said:
well I haven't touched down on either the 2015 or the 17. the 17 has the Conti radials and I just did 310 miles of N. Ga and the Cherohala skyway yesterday. the tires are scared to the edge of the tread but the Contis have less side tread than a normal radial.
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Hey which radials are you running?
 
Thanks for the feedback. Don’t worry I’m not obsessed with it, mostly just curious about the bike itself. My Versys I know I will never touch down on, and some of my older bikes have scraped way faster than I guessed they would (1980 Suzuki GS750E, 73 CB350 Four.) the V7 just looks like it should be a scraper, and I know the newer V9 has a love affair with pavement, so I’m continuously surprised to get through a steep corner with no screech.
 
Michael Boeglin said:
Thanks for the feedback. Don’t worry I’m not obsessed with it, mostly just curious about the bike itself. My Versys I know I will never touch down on, and some of my older bikes have scraped way faster than I guessed they would (1980 Suzuki GS750E, 73 CB350 Four.) the V7 just looks like it should be a scraper, and I know the newer V9 has a love affair with pavement, so I’m continuously surprised to get through a steep corner with no screech.
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I ride with Beau1K (I'm on a '13 V7R and he's on a '18 V7 III R), and, yeah, he's scraped both of his pipes pretty extensively as well as (maybe) the side stand on his bike? I've pretty much eliminated most of the stock components that would scrape, the last of which was the OEM side stand. We both have tubeless Continental RA3 radials on our bikes, which are sufficiently grippy to allow for, pretty much, as much lean as you want on these bikes. Beau1K definitely has to contend with a shallower lean angle since he's sporting the stock exhausts.

PasoDuc88 also rides with us on a V9. He has a lot more ground clearance issues than we do on the V7Rs. I think he scrapes the pegs on every turn.

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I scraped my foot once.... Shitty old Metzler tyres.
That said, what are those bolts called, that you fit in the peg tips?
 
Stradagene said:
I ride with Beau1K (I'm on a '13 V7R and he's on a '18 V7 III R), and, yeah, he's scraped both of his pipes pretty extensively as well as (maybe) the side stand on his bike? I've pretty much eliminated most of the stock components that would scrape, the last of which was the OEM side stand. We both have tubeless Continental RA3 radials on our bikes, which are sufficiently grippy to allow for, pretty much, as much lean as you want on these bikes. Beau1K definitely has to contend with a shallower lean angle since he's sporting the stock exhausts.

PasoDuc88 also rides with us on a V9. He has a lot more ground clearance issues than we do on the V7Rs. I think he scrapes the pegs on every turn.

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Scraping pegs (or any part of the bike for that matter) is not my idea of fun - result could be ugly if you're not expecting it. The Roamer is my first "cruiserish" bike and I love it, but sometimes do forget it wasn't necessarily meant to be ridden hard through corners (that's speaks to the handling characteristics of the bike though). However, I'll soon be picking it up from Todd with new suspension components (Matris front and rear) and the OEM rear-set pegs installed. I'm hoping these rear-sets will give me just a bit more clearance.
 
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