Peg Safety Test

[ddking]

There are two things to consider. Will the pegs themselves touch down? Easily solved by moving them higher but that might make things uncomfortable. Second, will the mounts grind into the road even if the pegs are high enough? There is a method for testing this.

Take a board [a piece of plywood would be better] and lay one end of it on an imaginary line running between the two wheels.



Lift the outside end of the board up. If it hits the crash bar before it hits the peg, you are about as safe as you can be with a peg mounted on the horizontal bar.



You can do this with bike on center stand or side stand. It doesn't matter. It is a good way to approximate the safest position. This is an estimation! When riding, your suspension (under load) would have the bottom end of the 'board" a little higher which decreases your available lean angle. That's one of the reasons that bikes with more ground clearance, firmer suspension or lighter loads can lean more.

[Fred H.]

This is a good rough test and it will tell you what will hit first as Dan shows, but just remember, when you are sitting on the bike going through a corner, the suspension will be compressed. Add in a mid corner bump into the equation, and things you thought might never scrape can and will hit the road.

[laen]

Good to know this

[Brian in Abilene]

That test will work well as long as you ride on level, even roads. I did the same test when I mounted my highway pegs on the vertical bars as I high as I could get them. Figured I was good to go. Then in Arkansas I entered a right hand curve, the road sloping slightly away from the curve making the right side of the road slightly higher. I ground off quite a bit of the highway peg's arm and never touched the foot peg.

Take it for what it is, a very rough estimate of clearance. Like Fred said, there are many things that can affect that estimate. The only way to be sure is not to mount anything to the bars. I know I'm really close to losing my highway pegs for that reason.

[ddking]

You're right. However that is due to the arms of the pegs going too low. On mine, the arms are higher and I can scrape the engine guards without scraping any part of my peg.

[Cal-D]

I'm with Dan, I have the GF model mounted on the verticial bar about half way up and I have scraped the header cowl and tail pipes and centre stand and no marks on the Mic-O-Pegs.
I also have mine mounted so that my leg spread is less than normal, did that by turning the mounts slightly inward and then removing some of the twist in the peg arms to get the pegs at the correct angle.