It just struck me. The lowers on my 04 are not flared. I'm assuming that those who scrape the lowers before the boards are '05 and newer models.
I also consider it an accomplishment if I scrape in the twisties.

However, I've never planted the board hard enough to pivot the bike on it!

 

i had to scrape dookey off my floorboards the other day

 

If your scrapin', your having fun.
Throw a set of Avon Venom's on, you'll scrap even more. Venom's improve handling big time!

 

I don't consider it a fun day of riding unless I scrape both side a few times. For those of you who like to challenge yourselves and improve your riding skills some, take a class that is geared towards street skills. The ERC is just a drop in the bucket, try this class if you get a chance http://www.totalcontroltraining.net/index.html or take a track school on your bagger.. That never fails to put a smile on the local folks. Take at least two classes a year see where your skills go…

 

Hello all, I just got the 04 1200r sporster came from a suzuki c50 boulevard with floorboards , so I got use to them and put them on the sporster, it seems one has to really lean the sporster hard to scrape the

floorbards right? please give some feedback. I am concerned that the floorboards i got do not give

when touching down like on my former bike, so what are the chances that the bike will flip if hard touch

down of the floorboards on the sporster? it seems many of you have touched often and no problem with
disorienting the bike right? tks much for input tom

 

If your floorboards are the type with the steel flange attached to keep from grinding the aluminum edge of the floorboards, then you have a fair chance of going down if that chunk of steel digs into the pavement rather than sliding across the pavement. If you're going slow enough, it may just lift your bike a bit...if going faster and it digs deep...ouch and $$$$. I had aluminum floorboards on a Kawasaki Z1 and delighted in dragging the boards....I replaced them (many times) after the edge of the boards were ground down to knife blade thickness!

 

draggin stuff is pretty easy on our baggers, getting your braking done early and accellerating thru the corner will help with clearance as will shifting your weight to the inside.

 

There's no hard lowers on my Classic to rub,I've raised the footboards up a notch which helped a lot but I still scrape them pretty often.
I bought a couple sets of new take offs from ebay to replace them with when they get too beat up.

 

i try to scrape my boardes everytime i do a mi. left but it still spooks me

 

If you are dragging your boards and have to level them off after you come back upright just be careful. The next thing that will be dragging is the frame or the stand. When that stuff drags you are about a mm from getting a new paint job. The same goes for your lower fairings.