Boots scraping - how to avoid?

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Postby Barrabob » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:24 am

can place the sole of your inside foot flat against the heel plate but it will involve hanging off the bike and pointing your knee at the ground.

I am fortunate having a bike with plenty of ground clearance and knowing i can hang off okay and my knee wont hit unless i am getting rather extreme.

I went with balls of feet on the pegs on the 250 and it works great for a week then your pegs start scraping, just take out the hero blobs when that starts happening and you will be due for a new bike soon after that.

Meaning the learner bike has got you past the learning to ride the bike stage. :D
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Postby Stereo » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:39 am

I am too much of a woos to scrape my boots.... I dont even get close...
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Postby Gosling1 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:30 am

Do a couple of track days Stereo - I can almost *guarantee* that you will be touching your toes down once you get out on a racetrack :twisted:

Lots of the confidence you need to do this is found simply in the track surface, lack of traffic, lack of radar, and fast people to follow and learn from :P

In the *bad* old days, you had to use your toes to guage how close you were to scraping engine covers.......... :wink: footpegs were low and set relatively 'forward' back then.......

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Postby Glen » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:39 am

Make sure you've got Toe sliders on your boots and that you can easily move your feet so only your toes are on the pegs. Even with your toes on the pegs you'll still scrape them on a ride day though.

When you're buying boots make sure the design of the sole/heel allows you to slide your feet back easily. Once you get used to it you'll find that on a twisty road you'll have your toes on the pegs full time.
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Postby jewjew » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:30 am

Does anybody else here think he's having a go!!!!
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Postby Gosling1 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:04 am

jewjew wrote:Does anybody else here think he's having a go!!!!


No, I thought he was fair dinkum.....why, do you think he is pulling our chain ?? :?
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Postby Strika » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:26 am

He/She could be just a very very very very very very niave and inexperienced rider with little or no knowledge and perhaps even a great misunderstanding of two wheeled dynamics? :lol:
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Postby BladeBoy » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:27 am

I don't think so............I WAS going to ask about elbow sliders
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Postby rtyuiop » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:32 am

Strika wrote:He/She could be just a very very very very very very niave and inexperienced rider with little or no knowledge and perhaps even a great misunderstanding of two wheeled dynamics? :lol:


Bingo! He is indeed.

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Postby mrmina » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:18 am

jewjew wrote:Does anybody else here think he's having a go!!!!


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Postby Strika » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:47 am

rtyuiop wrote:
Strika wrote:He/She could be just a very very very very very very niave and inexperienced rider with little or no knowledge and perhaps even a great misunderstanding of two wheeled dynamics? :lol:


Bingo! He is indeed.

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Cool, don't take any notice of the piss takes, it's standard operating procedure in hear, and all said in good fun. :wink:

Now Danny, if you really are inexperienced and your already scraping your pegs........what bike do you ride?
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Postby gray_rm » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:10 pm

Pontikat wrote:Danny i would say you are pushing the bike over in corners instead of getting off the bike to maintain ground clearance. It's a newbie habit which is easily fixed before it ends in tears. Brett


Brett - can you elaborate on that? By leaning off the bike the bike doesn't need to lean that much?
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Postby Gosling1 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:52 pm

gray_rm wrote:I scraped my boot last Putty run - in the left hairpin in the middle - and wondered whether I'd done something wrong, or something macho :)


:lol: :lol: a bit of both mate !! as long as you are only scraping your boot and not your arse along the deck, then you are doing OK....not to say that you should always *try* to scrape something....... that could end in tears.....

Leaning *off* the bike simply lowers the CoG of the whole 'unit', allows the larger part of the tyre contact patch to remain in contact with the road, giving you greater grip and drive out of a corner........it also looks shit-hot if you do it right, and shit-house if you do it wrong......

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Postby Stereo » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:33 pm

Gosling1 wrote:Do a couple of track days Stereo - I can almost *guarantee* that you will be touching your toes down once you get out on a racetrack :twisted:

Lots of the confidence you need to do this is found simply in the track surface, lack of traffic, lack of radar, and fast people to follow and learn from :P

In the *bad* old days, you had to use your toes to guage how close you were to scraping engine covers.......... :wink: footpegs were low and set relatively 'forward' back then.......

:D


I still havent done a track day... :(

But still... I'm pretty sure that I wouldnt be considered slow out there on the road and I dont get close to scraping a toe.... a knee most certainly... but not a toe... Then again... was looking at my back tire today, I have about half a centimeter of unused rubber at the edges... that would be the toe scraping bit I suspect... :)
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Postby rtyuiop » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:41 pm

Strika wrote:Cool, don't take any notice of the piss takes, it's standard operating procedure in hear, and all said in good fun. :wink:

Now Danny, if you really are inexperienced and your already scraping your pegs........what bike do you ride?


Hey, I ride a Spewsuki, the only reason I come here is for the piss takes :lol: ! It's not that much of an achievement - I'm only scraping size 13 boots, not pegs... And on a GS00 the pegs ain't exactly high set anyway.

I'll have to give a few different things a go next time I get out and about. Not sure how comfortable I'll be getting off the bike - sounds scary.

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