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Message started by ToesNose on 09/30/12 at 17:39:10

Title: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 09/30/12 at 17:39:10

Went to head out on the bike to run some erands, not five feet from starting off my right footpeg drops out on me :o Apparently the original owner who "lightly put the bike down" must have damaged the right peg and just hammered a piece of sawed off hex key in there to hold it temporarily and forgot about it. So happy it happened at home and not on the interstate :-?

Sigh..... I keep running into things that make me slap my forehead and ask myself "why did he do that?!" Guess I'll be getting new footpegs soon..... LOL

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy206/bcrx2/IMG_20120930_192014.jpg

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/30/12 at 17:59:52

Or, you could drill & tap the top plate & run a bolt in, figure the length that holds it at the angle you want & shorten the bolt to accomplish that. A hex head would look funky, but a pan head would be okay,.

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 10/01/12 at 04:45:39

Not a bad idea JOG thanks, I'll take a closer look at it tomorow when the little boy is in school ;)

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/12 at 08:21:13

Thats what I get paid to do, solve problems as quickly & cheaply as possible,

Well, IF I got paid, thats what it would be for.,.

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by Serowbot on 10/01/12 at 10:01:37

Is that a rear peg, mounted in the front?...
It looks kinda' short... (or maybe it's just the picture)... :-?...

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by Greg on 10/01/12 at 10:23:40

2234233E26333E25510 wrote:

Is that a rear peg, mounted in the front?...
It looks kinda' short... (or maybe it's just the picture)... :-?...

I agree. It does look like a rear. I tried to do that to replace my bent one and it also fell.

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 10/01/12 at 10:50:10

I wouldn't doubt at all that it's a rear one, every time I start working on something or go over the bike I find something else he did that I just can't explain heh.

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/12 at 12:24:16

This place we bought,, I still shake my head in amazement some days, at the work they did,

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 10/03/12 at 16:49:51

Well it wasn't a rear peg, he must have bent part of the extension from the front right peg then decided to grind the rest of it off and just shove that piece of hex key in there loose :-? Looked around the web no replacement footpeg to be had anywhere that I could find, so maybe I'll just have something welded on there where the hook was till I find some pegs I like LOL.

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/03/12 at 21:54:11

Thats gonna cost some $$$, & how will you know its the right length? If youll drill a hole & do that Bolt/Tap trick, you can set it just like ya want it,,A little Thread Lock & youre in bidniss, Shouldnt spend $5.00..

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 10/04/12 at 04:44:13

Sorry JOG I guess I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to have something welded on the same as the hook that was on it stock but rather like the hex key that was on the flat end of the peg that stopped it from traveling, just not lossely hanging out in there like it was LOL. I know a guy that works over at Michael Waltrip Racing who welds stuff on the cheap for me, he redid a water outlet freeze plug on an aluminum manifold for $25 last time. Something like this might only cost me a cup of coffee ;)

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/04/12 at 05:46:08

If I had a deal like that goin, thats how Id do it, sounds like a neat place to hang out.,

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by ToesNose on 10/05/12 at 07:29:01

Well I found some pegs I like so I just ordered two pairs of them instead of messing with the broken one. $16.99 a pair from Debrix Cycles.

http://https://www.debrix.com/v/vspfiles/photos/27-1227-VT-2.jpg

Title: Re: Footpeg Fallout.....
Post by Joe F on 10/05/12 at 08:51:59

I keep looking at this having replaced a couple pegs now. They wouldn't look like they would bend on a light drop but then I'd rather have the peg bend than it's attachment point or the frame...