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Message started by John_D on 06/08/09 at 01:51:28

Title: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/08/09 at 01:51:28

Man, I love the salvage yard! 8-) Picked these beauties up for $25.

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000270.jpg

Whipped up a bracket at work, along with mounts for the tubes, which I think may possible be parts from a chain link fence?! ::) Anyway, here's pics of all of it. The best pic of the mounting method itself is also the fuzziest, go figure. Enjoy! 8-)

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000273.jpg

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000275.jpg

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000274.jpg

Oh, and check out my hightech method of levelling the bike! ::)

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000278.jpg

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by prechermike on 06/08/09 at 03:20:01

Cool! I wish we had a bike salvage yard around here.

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by phinswin on 06/08/09 at 03:32:06

Wow, that looks sharp. Thanks for the pics.
I've been surfin' the 'net trying to find an inexpensive way to add highway pegs.
Good luck, be careful, and keep ridin'

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/08/09 at 03:40:21

Thanks guys! Apparently there's at least a couple around Portland. The one I got this from shares a building with another one. The side I got this from is owned by a H-D dealer, all the stuff that gets taken off bikes at the dealer goes to this shop, some awesome stuff. The other side I think deals more with imports I think, haven't made it in there yet. I can see myself spending way too much time and money in both though! ;D

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by Rocco on 06/08/09 at 08:31:59

i went to a junkyar once and they had a '78 trans am hood for sale, complete with the bird...i almost bought it...and no i don't have the rest of the car

i also had to force myself NOT to a 426 super cobra jet engine...what i would have done with it i'll never know

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by PipJones on 06/08/09 at 11:49:10

You woulda put it on your savage and called it the Busa-Killer-mod!

everyone would want one then.

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by False Illusion on 06/08/09 at 12:08:01

Duuude...I SO wanna know what those "frame brackets" are! Is that a rubber bushing in each one??? Man...those get my noggin' wheels turnin'!
:o

Does anyone know for sure what those monsters are or where to get them...?

I've never seen fence brackets with those bushings let alone a small diameter like what fits our frame...

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by Stimpy on 06/08/09 at 12:58:47

Nice mod John!
Great mounting job.
(still on my wish list)

I just LOVE these places, look at
all the goodies I found for my bike there:

A pair of nice & shiny footpegs.
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5492/p1070537.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8241/p1070538.jpg

A pair of Honda Shadow rear turn signals (mine were in bad shape)
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5669/p1070539.jpg

(I wanted all 4 of them but they just had a pair)
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2602/p1070541.jpg

Honda Shadow mirrors (nice and solid)
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1900/p1070544.jpg

and this I made from an old fuel gauge and a pocket watch
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8066/pict1812c.jpg

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by prechermike on 06/08/09 at 13:26:45

Stimpy, I really like the fuel gauge /pocket watch thing. I want one of those! :(

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by Stimpy on 06/08/09 at 15:35:11

Make it yourself! (it's easy)

Just order on-line (ebay?) a used fuel gauge from a
kymco or bajaj motorcycle (from india, korea or china,
whatever as long as the case is shinny) or find one
at a motorcycle junk yard, then get a cheapy battery
powered pocket watch, open the gauge, carefully,
make some room for the watch.

Attach from under, somehow, I drilled a notch and used
a metal bracket and an aggressive metal screw, done.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6569/pict1814.jpg

http://www.jinlunparts.co.uk/parts/images/uploads/prinfuel.JPG

http://media.rei.com/media/24018.jpg

ebay
http://motors.shop.ebay.com/items/__fuel-gauge?_arm=1&_armi=Motorcycles&_armm=94&_dmpt=US_motorcycles&_ruu=http://motors.shop.ebay.com/items/Motorcycles__fuel-gauge%3F_arr%3D1%26_dmpt%3DUS_motorcycles%26_sacat%3D6024&_rdc=1

http://www.midnightexpressmotorcycle.com/HBGallery.jpg

They also sell these type of watches for your bike, an a different
model (like a large ring) that attaches to your handlebars , but
I like making my own.

Good Luck!

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/08/09 at 18:56:47

3E3221272A3D530 wrote:

I'm just guessing on the fence brackets, they were just in a bin of odds-n-ends in the corner of the shop. The rubber bushings are just some gasket material (from work also!) that I cut down to fit in there, mostly to keep it from damaging the paint, but it also made everything fit nice and snug!

Nice finds Stimpy, I like the mirrors. If they don't buzz around as much as ours, I may have to put that on my "wish list" also.

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/08/09 at 20:45:04

Went for a decent ride up the Gorge this afternoon, had to try out my new mesh jacket. It was pretty nice, but then it was only 73° out, we'll see how it handles real heat this summer. Anyway, back to what I was going to say... I had a chance to try out the pegs, not too bad, but I'll need to shim something under them to tip them up a little. As they sit now, they try and slide my feet off to the outside. :P

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by sockmonkeygirl on 06/09/09 at 14:49:51

Great job/s on the pegs and the clock!

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by prechermike on 06/09/09 at 16:28:44

Stimpy, I am going to make me a clock, I am looking for the parts right now, in fact since you posted about this a couple of weeks ago, when someone asked you about the extra gague on your handlebars. The trouble is I have too many projects going on as it is! I jut picked up a brand new hd dyna muffler, I can barely get into my shop and so on and so forth. :-/

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/10/09 at 22:01:58

6275747E75737B2722212022100 wrote:

I got the pegs shimmed, I'll have to take 'em out for a spin tomorrow and see if it helped any. If it doesn't rain...
Just washed her today, don't want to waste all that work! ;D
Anyway, on to the pics! :D

I was going to thread these holes, to allow adjustability, until I broke my crappity smacking 6-32 tap off in the first one.http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Avatars/angry021.gif I just bored out a hole big enough for the screw, and put a nut in for good measure for the spacing.
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000281.jpg
w/ the pegs:
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000282.jpg

On the bike:
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/redneck72102/Bike%20Pics/Bike%20Mods/IM000283.jpg

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by Jay on 06/11/09 at 15:13:06

Pegs look awesome! Only "salvage" place around here is too dang proud of their stuff. I called about rear foot pegs for a set of highway bars I was trying to make, and they told me $15 per peg!!! :o
We need a little competition in these parts.

Title: Re: Salvage yard highway pegs
Post by John_D on 06/11/09 at 15:21:06

0A01190C105151600 wrote:

Thanks! I was actually pleasantly surprised at the prices of the stuff I've bought there so far, since they're owned by a Harley dealer. Of course all the stuff I've bought so far didn't have the H-D stamp on it, so maybe that helps! ;D