A fork brace improves the situation significantly.

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2008 DL650ABS, 2006 DL1000
It takes absolutely no talent to ride fast in a straight line. Motorcycling enjoyment has nothing to do with high speed. It has everything to do with high adrenaline.

Riding a fast bike at near legal speeds is boring. Riding a Strom at those same speeds is an adrenaline rush.

 

I wasn't defending scraping pegs, nor was the instructor, in fact the opposite. The point was that scraping them is not something to be afraid of, but it's also not a sign of being cool and hardcore; it's a sign that the rider's technique could be better.

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"I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Of course it could also be a sign that someone is enjoying the hell out of their bike.

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2008 DL650ABS, 2006 DL1000
It takes absolutely no talent to ride fast in a straight line. Motorcycling enjoyment has nothing to do with high speed. It has everything to do with high adrenaline.

Riding a fast bike at near legal speeds is boring. Riding a Strom at those same speeds is an adrenaline rush.

I'd have more problems with scraping the handlebars than the pegs...

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1979 GL1000 Goldwing / 1992 Nighthawk 250 - Baby
2003 DL1000 - Priscilla / 1997 Concours - Ms. Piggy
2002 DL1000 - Fluffy the Torque Monster (Deceased)
2003 DL1000 - Freya, Leather Winged Demon of the Night

Thanks for the suggestions. I've thought about tires and have read about the improvements others get with different tires (I've still got lots of tread on the Trailwings). I do have a forkbrace. I'll have to work with someone on my suspension set up and maybe I'll invest in new rubber earlier than I'd like.

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87 Honda Magna v45 , 00 Ninja 500R, 07 V-Strom w/ABS, 06 VFR

Listen, if you are scraping pegs, you need to re-evaluate how you are riding. You either need to back it off a bit to leave yourself some cushion, or you need to learn how to lean your body and get in tune with the bike.

I too feel like it is a personal failing on my part if I scrap a peg, and I've only done it a few times. I can certainly keep up with most of my sport bike friends without dragging any metal bits. Picking a good line, having confidence, and paying attention is what gets you through.

Goto a track day if you really want to find those limits, no need to push it on the street where you can get really hurt.

Well said - the road is not the place to be testing the limits. By the way, you'll find the Wee will keep up with just about anyone on the road in the twisties - I'd say 99 out of 100 riders with sports bikes don't know how to ride them!

This is very true. Half my sport bike friends are very good and no trouble keeping up with me, the other half.. well... we just stop at the top and wait for them to show up

I wouldn't know about how the Wee keeps up, what with me having a V and all I'm sure it would be pretty much the same.

Track days are cheap, and they have people there to coach you and help you learn. It'll help your riding on the street a lot, confidence is 90% of cleaning a corner or screwing it up badly.

Don't forget sand, little pebbles and things that accumulate in the turns, when your carving the turns, (we have had 2 gaurdrail fatalities this year in anza borrego desert) if it don"t feel good, don't do it! I scrape the pegs all the time on my 650 ninja, but thats a low slung rocket, not like my vstrom 1000.