When I had my EG I used to rotate my foot so that my boot was the first thing to scrape. Kept the bike unmarked. I haven't scraped anything on the Softail, not sure yet what would scrape first..

 

85 Shadow, 87 Virago, 04 FLHTI, 82 FXRS, 09 FLHTC, 07 FXDB, 02 Shadow, 00 FXDL...can't think of anything I've ridden that I didn't drag pegs except the Honda Trail 90 (circa 1966) I learned to ride on.

 

Can't find the post on here now, but within the past two weeks, someone posted pics of their stock pegs ground to a chisel point. Got their money's worth out of those pegs.

 

I'll take scraping a peg before scrubbing hard parts. Pegs fold up, giving you a warning, hard parts don't.

 

I hear ya. I have little self control and a family to take care of. I still miss the sport bike rush...so I might just build my motor on the HD up and have it shock me once in a while.


Coming OUT of the corner that is.

 

Had to get new floor boards for my SG already. I brought that sport bike mentality with me and tore them up pretty bad in our local state park.

 

................+1

 

I thought everybody did, except for noob and the girls. I've pointed every peg on every bike I've had - but this Heritage really slows me down (to the good I think) and I've still ground off 1/4" since last Nov. - I can sneeze and drag floorboards on this thing!
What scares the heck outta me is I have only 1" of lean left to hit the crash bars...and I don't wanna find out why they call 'em crash bars!

 

Now that I have done both, (slip ons on the Street Bob) which didnt seem to bother me much, but this is the first time I scaped forward controls, feeling those pegs fold in and scrape was so much louder and more significant than dragging the pipe.

 

I've scraped boots, pegs, and pipes. I went to a track day offered by my work and scraped on almost every turn. Ive gotten pretty used to it.