People messing with your bike

needs lube!

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

needs lube!

Really? Simple as that? Never noticed the footpegs rotating before though?!

As one of the mounting bolts is missing?
Check the mounting bolts for the rear MC, if the lower one is missing/sheered then I could see how that may pivot around the top bolt causing a peg rotating effect.
TBH though I recon you'd spot this instantly on inspectiong, what time you home tonight flower?

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I seriously can't see a fellow nice orger such as Matt, tampering with such important parts of your bike Roberrrrrt.

Kill switch, lever adjustment, and the rubber boot (under which is the adjuster for clutch cable tension).

Somebody is yanking his chain!

The brake pedal is just co-incidence, noticed for the first time because he's looking for things wrong with the bike.

Thats aftermarket I know but its the image I used for the base of the above logic.

Hang on a minute, this is Leeds isn't it? Yep, I take back my assumption, somebody is trying to nick stuff for sure!

[TamSV]

If the actual footpeg is rotating, the bolt holding it in place must have come loose.

The peg has lugs that locate into the footpeg hanger. Remove the hanger and check that the big bolt that goes into the footpeg is secure. If it's loose, threadlock it.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Hang on a minute, this is Leeds isn't it? Yep, I take back my assumption, somebody is trying to nick stuff for sure!

Precisely!

Originally Posted by TamSV

If the actual footpeg is rotating, the bolt holding it in place must have come loose.

The peg has lugs that locate into the footpeg hanger. Remove the hanger and check that the big bolt that goes into the footpeg is secure. If it's loose, threadlock it.

+1, Sounds like the allen bolt has loosened and the two locating lugs on the foot peg side are out of place. Although this would be evident if the stem the peg pins onto was loose/wobbly.

Prank or not, it's still a worry. And why jump to the conclusion it's a prank, although it'd be nice to know who did it, at the end of the day, any biker who felt a mischievous urge that day could do the same.

I park my bike just off a busy street often filled with tourists taking pictures etc. The other day I caught a Japanese chap just getting off it and making a move to balance himself precariously on the seat (bearing in mind it sits on a hill, I park it in gear but it's on a slippy bit of pavement and can inch into the wall if jerked about). So I marched out and very firmly told him where to go. That's the limit of folk messing about that I've experienced but it still made my blood boil, you wouldn't pose on the bonnet of a car or climb on its roof for a good photo now would you!?