Dragging pegs

[bhamon]

Originally Posted by themeatmanlandry

Shift your booty to the inside of the turn.

Turn right, shift right, turn left, shift left.

This really helps, will have to practice. As a newbe, my tendency is to try to stay more upright.

[themeatmanlandry]

I'd try to stay upright. You can move your bee-hind around, but IMO it looks squidy to do it on public streets. In order to look cool doing it, you REALLY need to be on a track. If you NEED to start hanging off (in public) you're either going too fast, or you're not leaning the bike enough.

My opinion.

It's been my experience that cruisers just drag stuff. When they do, they're generally nowhere near the tire adhesion limit, and as heavy as they are, will more likely scrub excess metal off whatever's dragging (pegs, pipes, etc.) than lift a tire. Still, if you reach a resistance-to-abrasion point, you'll probably be upset. (See dictionary - all definitions of 'upset' apply.) Use it as an alarm. When your hear that sound, you've reached your limit.

[thezukiman]

I have an 03 800 Intruder and I have the same problem...I do think it's the low center of gravity on the bike...but it definately drags at speed and lean points when it shouldn't...probably just a design flaw in the bike...they didn't test that as good as they should have! Scares the bejesus out of me too when it happens

[tlwisner]

Originally Posted by bhamon

2 questions:
1) do floorboards stick out more or less than foot pegs?

2) does your bike really have good traction until after the pegs start scraping?

I have scraped my C50 floorboards a few times, actually it is the acorn nut looking thing on the rear of the floorboard that drags. The floorboards are hinged, so they don't "tripod" the bike and cause a bad traction loss. I can be on the New Circle Rd. inside loop going down the ramp to westbound Versailles Rd. with a good lean, scraping my right board and I still have lots of fat tire gripping the banked asphalt.

On a decent surface, you will not be able to lean your C50 anywhere near far enough to cause it to lose traction.