I got my peg down! WooHoo!

Originally Posted by 2mths

I got the RHS peg down today. On a bit roundabout admitidly but I'm still well chuffed.

Learn to hang off more, next thing to touch down will be your ****. Scraping pegs may seem big and clever, but you're dangerously close to falling off the edge of your tyres.

Then I'll be one of them "hang of hero's" poeple criticise. I don't seem to be able to win.

Seriously tho' it's not my normal style of riding. It is nice to know it's do-able and to have experianced the fact the bike is more capable than I.

I have had 2 peg hairy peg down moments - Both on track where the pegs dug in - Blue_sv650s had was following me with his cam and has footage of the first one - got that kicking about??

Second time was quicker and much worse - almost threw me off. After that I decided to get rearsets as I would much rather not having to worry about it than have them dig in again. After a lot of thought I decided I didn't want to spend anymore money on the SV, so traded it in for a new R6! Have done 5-6 trackdays on it now and the pegs haven't been down once! and they have these crazy 1inch long hero blobs on as well.

I was having a chat with my motorcycle instructor the other day. He always came peg-scraping round the outside of me on his CBF1000, and has just brought some titanium toe-sliders. His other bike? A pan euro I dont think theres any danger in scraping pegs, specialy on the SV since they are quite low - you'll be scraping pegs before the limits of the tyres are reached I think. Anyway, its just a depth-gauge, just like draggin the old knee...

Warren....who's to say what i mean by doing the "ton" Its a pretty ambiguous term, not using units etc etc

Matt

Originally Posted by 2mths

Yeah and it's quite long too. I can't see me ever wearing it out, though I know some people do.

Has anyone noticed the hero-blobs on Honda's? Especially the SP1 and SP2's?


Matt

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

I was having a chat with my motorcycle instructor the other day. He always came peg-scraping round the outside of me on his CBF1000, and has just brought some titanium toe-sliders. His other bike? A pan euro I dont think theres any danger in scraping pegs, specialy on the SV since they are quite low - you'll be scraping pegs before the limits of the tyres are reached I think. Anyway, its just a depth-gauge, just like draggin the old knee...

I'll save this quote for that time when you're nursing bruises and a scraped bike, all because your peg dug in and launched the back wheel off the ground - don't laugh, I've seen it happen right in front of me at Mallory Park hairpin. How the girl (my ex) stayed on board her Bandit 650 I will never know. She scraped the exhaust can in that incident, and bent the rear brake pedal double. Bandit pegs are lower than SV ones. Check this out:

Before hanging off
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After learning how to hang off (Check out the rear brake pedal)
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How I do it on a battered 75,000 mile Bandit 600 (Pegs are a long way off scraping)
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I see you're still in your first two years and on a 33bhp bike, just go easier and learn how to ride properly before attempting heroics. You've got years of pleasureable riding ahead of you in which to learn how to corner fast yet safe. Learn how to shift weight across and keep the bike more upright, it gives you more rubber on the road and allows you to corner faster yet safer.

Thats pretty much what happened to me, except i was coming off of a hairpin onramp. i probably could have saved it, but i went wide and hit gravel on the shoulder. thankfull noone hit my sv because it slid out into the middle of the freeway. not good, not good at all!

ive seen 136 on my sk5