I went to the hardware store with metric allen head bolts that mounted the footpegs and got two metric nuts that fit the bolts and two washers. Painted the nuts and washers with gloss black Rust-Oleum and then put the allen bolts/nuts/washers back on sans the footpegs....with the black paint the nuts and washers they were almost invisible until you got a few feet away. Hope this helps. FYI...use blue loctite on the nuts.....just in case.....if those nuts fall off there's nowhere for the allen bolts to go but back out into your rear wheel spokes... :'(

I have taken the bike all apart for a winter rebuild with mods...i will post pics of ALL when I begin re-assembly  

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 01/02/13 at 17:42:30:


OF,

I'm not getting it......

Last I checked, the buddy pegs are mounted to the swingarm.  They move too much to act as tie downs, I'm thinkin'.

What am I missing?  

Buddy pegs make excellent tie down points when mounting the bike to a truck or to a jack stand.  

Think on it, the contained area is the rear tire and swing arm and they never move relative to the truck bed or the jack stand.  The body of the bike might move some, and there may be a mild "controlled conflict" between handle bars and sissy bar, but we know tie downs can stretch a bit as needed, that's why they need periodic tightening.  And it is always the sissy bar and handle bars that get loose, the buddy peg tie downs stay pretty much unchanged.

Now, using buddy pegs as the bottom stop point for a carried load is more interesting as they will move up and down with the shocks.   But its better than having no bottom stop point at all.