Hitting Pegs On Ground, Good Or Bad?

[CBRHoonigan]

Ah ha, yes! They did catch the ground once...it was scary!
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its mad you scratched them on the sides xD

 

[2WV]

you should watch a youtuber called Schaaf, hes always dragging pegs. His videos are really entertaining if you like high adrenaline, fast paced canyon/twisty action!

 

[Lurch]

He had a bit of an off recently.

 

[Matt Leech]

its mad you scratched them on the sides

I hadn't noticed that.

I'll lean the bike over later, with some help, and see how the 'hero blobs' make contact with the ground

 

[CBRHoonigan]

I hadn't noticed that.

I'll lean the bike over later, with some help, and see how the 'hero blobs' make contact with the ground

in hindsight i cant tell if thats just a white mark or scratches

 

[2WV]

in hindsight i cant tell if thats just a white mark or scratches

Looks like paint lol...

 

[Matt Leech]

Looks like paint

Ah...like from the kerb on the inside of a track bend?

 

[2WV]

yeah. looks like curb maybe?

 

[Matt Leech]

I'll lean the bike over later, with some help, and see how the 'hero blobs' make contact with the ground

Tried and tried at the weekend to get my bike into a position where I could get that shot, but it's just too heavy for me to support while the missus asks "what is it again that I'm taking a photo of?".

 

[HippoDrone]

an easier option would be to get a sheet of plywood and put it up against the tyres and tilt it until the blob touches it. Obviously it won't be 100% accurate as your suspension would be compressing and tryes deforming if you were actually cranked over far enough to ground out the peg on the go but it would give you an indication of where it would strike. TBH though, all the pegs I've seen with scratches on the blobs had them a lot lower and looked a lot rougher so it having been scraped against something when moving it around is far more likely to be the cause of this IMO

 

[Matt Leech]

an easier option would be to get a sheet of plywood and put it up against the tyres and tilt it until the blob touches it

While standing at the side of the bike last night, alone, plywood-lacking, I spotted something on the bike and went in for a closer look...

...it has a power socket! Is this to charge accessories, or is it to take external power to charge the bike's battery?

 

[2WV]

What does your bikes manual say? I would've thought it was for accessories. The bike should charges the battery when its running.

 

[Matt Leech]

What does your bikes manual say? I would've thought it was for accessories. The bike should charges the battery when its running.

Not mentioned in the manual, so it must have been added by previous owner.

Oh, I realise that engine charges the battery while running, but I know in the olden days people used to keep their bike batteries topped up from an external source in their garage.

 

[2WV]

Another thing it could be is a diagnostic connection for the computer?

 

[Lurch]

Being a BMW it's likely to be DIN sized too.

I thought they were standard tbh.

 

[Sharktank]

I used to scrape mine all the time on my sportster low. I looked at it as a warning. They were on hinges anyway, so they would usually just buck my feet up a little, and make me "pucker" up a bit.