I know what you mean about it not being level, that would drive me nuts until i'd sorted that out.

Aha so I'm not the only obsessive compulsive around here then

You don't 'need' them, without them you can successfully grind boots, the actual pegs and the exhaust (on right handers at least!). As others say footpegs are spring loaded and give you a 'soft' touch down grinding the exhaust leaves you risk of lifting the bike up mid-corner.

The idea is they touch down before an exhaust or something else grounds, digs in and tips you off. Best to keep them on I reckon.

So maybe I could take off the left one and leave the right one on

Hey up, what are the little tear drop shaped whatchamacallits on the bottom of the front footrests and would it be disastrous if I amputated them - tbh they keep getting stuck in the top of me boots when pushing or pulling me bike and they always seem to get caught when going through tight spaces - any ideas? cheers m'dears. p.s. happy new year to all our readers

If the above suggestions dont work try malwarebytes,that seems to get rid of the crap I've downloaded

I know slimwilly, it only had 7500 on the clock when I got it (about July last year)- doesn't look quite so clean now what with farmers replacing the road surface with soil and other things which I'd rather not think about, the bloody weather and all the other things that the bike has to drive through but never mind ,most fun things involve getting dirty

Hello, happy christmas to you too,


are you a vicar?


Billy

Eh? a vicar ? oh the god bless us all- its a quote from from Dickens " A christmas carol " Tiny Tim says it ,I think

Why don't you just get off and push it? It is a lot easier

Most of the time I would but getting it through the back gate means theres no room for me and the bike and the slight incline means it can be a bit of a bugger 

This might be stupid however; I'm 5' 8" and found that when wearing jeans (which was incredibly rare) I found it very hard to get both feet on the ground to the point that I usually didn't bother (so just used one foot). This was only the case when my main trousers were in the wash or something. My main ones are particularly baggy (especially after weight loss) and allow me to easily get my feet on the ground.

Basically, that was a really long ass way of saying could it be your trouser wear? :P

Yeah I found this, especially with me waterproofs, getting me leg over could be problematic especially if me keks had slipped down a bit


Its not much of a problem when out and about and I can reach the floor its just getting through the back gate and similar tight squeezes that I find meself tiptoeing through the tulips so to speak, to be fair I may go the seat mod route take an inch or so off, cheers all,Steve

The size of the potholes I occasionally hit ( you cant avoid all of them  ) I'm surprised bits aren't dropping off with boring regularity - bloody dentist and osteopath are making  fortunes from me thanks to the highways dept  - bastards!

Cheers Dead Eye

Hello, just a few short lines for an introduction - my name is Steve I'm in my 50's physically, still in me teens mentally. I have

 a Fazer fzs 600 (2001) nice metallic blue colour ( will try and post photo if its easy)I also have an xv 125 virago which I used

as a runaround practising for me test. Me and the bikes live in Chester - I like messing with things that I buy to make them a

bit different - nothing too extreme, the odd polished cover here and there, colour coordinated grips,so prepare yourselves

for some questions along the lines of "Help I took this off to polish it and I cant get it back on again" that sort of thing

I'm not a mechanic by any means but I can do the odd thing - and frequently do! Anyway look forward to future chats oh

and Merry Christmas and God bless us one and all cheers, Steve

ps can someone advise on how to put picture in intro - only been here two minutes and asking for help already