I find two things wrong with the OEM footpegs on my SE: They're a little too far forward, even for my smallish feet. I've read about swapping the left and right pegs around but I'm not keen on this for the second reason: They're so large that I find that when manouvering the bike I keep hitting them with my shins.
Another minor annoyance is that the rubber tends to sort of grab my boots and/or trousers because of its "stickiness" if you like. The friction between them and your rubber-soled boots makes moving the feet about difficult. I don't recall having this trouble with Jap bikes, maybe it has something to do with the rubber compound on them being a bit more "plasticky" and slippery.
I needed to try some smaller and slimmer pegs.
I've just bought a set of OBERON Touring pegs, part number for the Bonneville: FPT-0025. Price £38 the set ($62, €44).
There are other models and lots of different colours on their site. Mine are boring silver anodised, but there are plenty of colours to choose from. The photo below shows the range. The first ones are called "Racing", the second "Studded" and the last ones are the "Touring" model:
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I've bought them directly from the maker rather than through a reseller because I've read of several cases where ignorant resellers have supplied the wrong adaptors and the pegs just droop badly. This is due to them confusing the pegs for the Thruxton and for the Bonneville. They're not the same.
The correct pegs have a sort of "suplement" in the form of some pegs pressed-in or, like mine, an additional block of alloy screwed very securely into the adaptor.
I would like to say that things went perfectly but, of course, with
after-market goodies they rarely do. A couple of problems:
* The pegs themselves are beautifully-made and well finished, but, the forked end is 3 mm narrower than the OEM items which means they flop about and rattle abominably once fitted. I suplemented them with a couple of large M10 washers to "pad" or "shim" out the space. This is essential to provide precision of operation.
* The OEM circlips or spring clips that hold the pivot pins are utter crap. They appear to be hardened, but not tempered. This makes them extremely brittle and one of them simply shattered in three pieces when being re-fitted. Good job I had some decent quality spares... Get yourself some just in case. The dimensions of the pin are in the photo. You can tell the tempered sort because they're a sort of gunmetal colour. Notice the Triumph ones are a bright finish.
The new pegs sit an inch or so further back and provide a more comfortable position for my legs. There are no limit "feelers" on them though, and being an inch narrower as well you could overdo it when cornering, so watch out you knee draggers...I'm going to look into drilling and tapping these to see if the stock pegs "feelers" can be adapted.
Triumph make two lengths of feelers: One for stock bikes, and longer ones that are supplied with the accessory centre stands. Perhaps the longer ones will be better being as these new pegs are quite a bit shorter.
For the Speed/power freaks out there: they're 100 grams lighter each: 0.2 Kgs saved there...
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Another minor annoyance is that the rubber tends to sort of grab my boots and/or trousers because of its "stickiness" if you like. The friction between them and your rubber-soled boots makes moving the feet about difficult. I don't recall having this trouble with Jap bikes, maybe it has something to do with the rubber compound on them being a bit more "plasticky" and slippery.
I needed to try some smaller and slimmer pegs.
I've just bought a set of OBERON Touring pegs, part number for the Bonneville: FPT-0025. Price £38 the set ($62, €44).
There are other models and lots of different colours on their site. Mine are boring silver anodised, but there are plenty of colours to choose from. The photo below shows the range. The first ones are called "Racing", the second "Studded" and the last ones are the "Touring" model:
I've bought them directly from the maker rather than through a reseller because I've read of several cases where ignorant resellers have supplied the wrong adaptors and the pegs just droop badly. This is due to them confusing the pegs for the Thruxton and for the Bonneville. They're not the same.
The correct pegs have a sort of "suplement" in the form of some pegs pressed-in or, like mine, an additional block of alloy screwed very securely into the adaptor.
I would like to say that things went perfectly but, of course, with
after-market goodies they rarely do. A couple of problems:
* The pegs themselves are beautifully-made and well finished, but, the forked end is 3 mm narrower than the OEM items which means they flop about and rattle abominably once fitted. I suplemented them with a couple of large M10 washers to "pad" or "shim" out the space. This is essential to provide precision of operation.
* The OEM circlips or spring clips that hold the pivot pins are utter crap. They appear to be hardened, but not tempered. This makes them extremely brittle and one of them simply shattered in three pieces when being re-fitted. Good job I had some decent quality spares... Get yourself some just in case. The dimensions of the pin are in the photo. You can tell the tempered sort because they're a sort of gunmetal colour. Notice the Triumph ones are a bright finish.
The new pegs sit an inch or so further back and provide a more comfortable position for my legs. There are no limit "feelers" on them though, and being an inch narrower as well you could overdo it when cornering, so watch out you knee draggers...I'm going to look into drilling and tapping these to see if the stock pegs "feelers" can be adapted.
Triumph make two lengths of feelers: One for stock bikes, and longer ones that are supplied with the accessory centre stands. Perhaps the longer ones will be better being as these new pegs are quite a bit shorter.
For the Speed/power freaks out there: they're 100 grams lighter each: 0.2 Kgs saved there...
