Foot Draggers are one of the lowest forms of motorcycle riders...
They should be committed to the OP's boot camp for a week of Special High Intensity Training (****)
If they cannot take the **** or pass **** then they should be remanded to riding Italian motorscooters

 

The only thing I dangle is my junk. (unless its really cold out)

 

+1
For those who think they can't balance very well in gravel or at slow speeds without their feet down, if you start intentionally leaving your feet up, you will find that you have better balance.
Its harder to balance with your feet out as you aren't "one with the bike" like you are with your feet on the pegs.


I really don't care how a person wants to ride in a parking lot, but just an observation, when I'm at the dealership, and the local Hog group comes riding in to the parking lot, I notice that about a third of them have their feet out like outriggers, and and another third has their feet up on the highway pegs (in a parking lot?). Maybe they think it just looks cool or something, but either way, all they have to stop with is their front brake. The dealer's parking lot is always swept clean, so I haven't seen any go down in it, but if they rode the same way in a parking lot with sand on it, I'm sure some of them would.

I know there are a lot of good and experienced riders in the Hog chapters, but a lot of them are fairly new riders as well, that just got their Hog membership free when they bought their bike. They all look and dress the same, but you can tell the new riders from the seasoned ones by watching them all pull into the parking lot.

I'm not trying to pick on Hog chapters here, because I see it in all the local riding groups, but it seems to be mostly the cruiser riders, because you don't see it too much with the sportbike or the dual-sport crowd.

But its really common to see at bike rallies as well when guys are riding up and down the street at slow speed many of them are also dragging their shoes.

I'm not trying to be judgemental here, but just making observations. A lot of people probably don't even realize that they are doing it, so if its brought to their attention, they might just improve their riding skills.

When they talk about riding in the friction zone, they're talking about your clutch friction zone, not your boots.


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I don't get why you're saying this..."highway pegs...all they have to stop with is their front brake"

I recently picked up highway pegs....and often will approach to my stop w/feet still on them. We use our heels to shift and brake. So "no, all we have to stop with is not just the front brake...but both brakes."

 

I guess that depends on where the highway pegs are mounted. Mine are on the outside of my engine guard and I can't shift and brake with my feet on them, but possible some can. Most of them that I have seen, their feet are so far out that they are nowhere near the controls. Mine included.

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Ahh OK, pegs on the guards...makes sense. I'm using highway pegs on the frame...what I would consider to be more common. Basically same location as forward controls.

 

Footdraggin' slackers

 

I do!! And those girls in your avatar should NOT be doing that tlb!!??

Seriously, seeing riders drag their feet is just a sign of inexperience to me unless it is obviously some grizzled biker just goofing.

 

The scooters here in Japan drag their feet a lot. Even at high speeds. I would hate to see what happens when you run your own foot over.

 

Have you seen COPS (tv show)? those guys will run themselves over with a car.