Thought I'd try a set of highway pegs and see how I liked them.  I ordered them through JC Whitless, so I don't know how long they'll last.  

Anyhow, here they are.  I think I'll still need to tweak a bit with the mounts to get them most comfortable for me, but they are close.

It was a little tricky installing them on the Wingerline bar, as you can tell it the bar isn't shaped like the majority of crash bars out there today.  

If anyone decides to try this/these pegs, I would recommend putting something around the inside of the clamps both to tighten things up a bit more, as well as to keep from marring the chrome on your crash bar.  I used a foam rubber type tape, something like camper weatherseal on mine.

thanks for the in line perspective, i've been concerned about mounting a set of highway pegs for debby, and the exhaust appears to be an issue for the ankles,calves,leathers. but with a spread like that, it doesn't look like much of a problem.
can somebody give us a similar shot of the suzuki bars with highway pegs, for comparison?

This is my second stupid question for today.  Please bear with me if the picture is misleading and I am asking a really stupid question.

How high up is that second set of pegs?   If you were to drag a peg, which one would drag first?  If you drug your highway pegs with feet engaged on your low pegs, could you potentially fold the upper set completely up and drag hard hinge metal (which might try to snag in soft asphalt) in a significant fashion without actually meaning to?  A hard bounce snag can do things to your balance, especially while you are trying to recover in the mist of turn in multi-lane city traffic.

In short, is this rig potentially dangerous if you lean into a low speed turn too hard?  The pic is all I have to look at and the angles look pretty durn close in the picture.

Heck, I drag the low pegs fairly frequently as the suspension is soft and the bike rides low on a steep bank turn going towards either side.

Oldfeller

Oldfeller2 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:



The new pegs are higher than the stock footpegs.  If I drag those pegs I'll be laying on my side anyhow because the bike couldn't run at that flat of an angle without going all the way over, IMHO.

Also, I don't drag pegs when I ride.  So, it's a non issue with me.

Oldfeller2 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:

Oldfeller,  Just a scuff.  And just barely.  I don't scrape very often - especially on daily commutes.

911Radioman,  I realize the height but with the added extension, I think it'll still scrape first - given that the lower right corner of the highwaybar scraped before the stock peg.  I dunno for sure; just a guess.  It's a light bike; just lean that puppy over and see which touches ground first and then let us know.  

Just to satisfy everybody's curiosity of late, I just went out and leaned the bike over.  Yes, the highway peg will drag first, about 3/4" before the stock peg would drag.

That said, seeing as how I've never even dragged a stock peg, it's still a non-issue, plus the highway pegs fold back so it is even less of a non-issue.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...