Big bike, cramped riding position, need info

sleeves said:

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sleeves said:

Hi Know what you mean, I'm 6'4" and ride a std, for run crash bars and highway pegs for long runs and find it completely comfortable. When the roadster came out I looked at upgrading as I was keen on the ABS brakes but after trying one I thought the new foot-peg position was terrible (just for me and my long legs). At the same time I have a friend who has a standard, they are somewhat shorter than me, and have put the roadster pegs on and love the foot position. With the HW bars and pegs I can move my feet through three positions, on the normal footrests, on the pegs and halfway in between, heel and toes. This is my favorite as I still have some conrol over the levers, can change down and rear brake (gotta be careful with the rear brake and the heal tho easy to overdo it).

Another story. So when buying the highway pegs, I look at the catalog and there is a picture of brackets with pegs attached, the price is expensive so I assume the pegs come with the brackets. The box arrives (at this stage still buying from Triumph dealer rather than importing myself) open the box and low and behold, no effing foot-pegs, just brackets. I look at the box it shows foot-pegs on the box. I call the dealer they say that's odd and contact Triumph (they know no better than me) they call me back and tell me the pegs are extra $250.00 extra to be exact, I make my own. The one place I could see that says foot-pegs are extra was on the installation sheet inside the box. I wrote and complained, I while back I noticed the website is now much clearer about this...

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FunkSoulBro said:

Like the duck bikes not bad either

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sleeves said:

Glad you like the duck took me a while to shape it but makes me smile everyday I walk outside.

The screen I got off a mate who hand made it for his speed triple. When he got rid of the speed triple he gave this to me, I really like it, its a hand-beaten alloy and a generic screen cut down the heat molded to fit. Since this pic I've had a crash where I smashed the plastic screen off and had to reshape another. Luckily the alloy was not damaged as handcrafting alloy is a skill beyond me, but I'm a gun with a hedge trimmer....

Will take some better pics and put them up in the meantime here's my favorite pic of the bike. It was one cold ass morning

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TOMCAT said:

Proving again just how 'cool' graphite owners are

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TOMCAT said:

First Sunday in ages it hasn't rained .. went for a ride down to Denmark ... shot up into the hills and then home .. was excellent day. Metzler on the backs getting really f#ckin skittish .. Bridgestones are meant to arrive in Perth 7th August I'm told.

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