I went for my first long ride on the the TW today. About 4 hours in the saddle... I have long legs (36" inseam) so the footpeg to seat distance is very short and my knees and ankles are at maximum bend when I am am sitting in the "normal" part of the saddle. I typically ride with my butt over the passenger strap. Yes, I look like I stole some kid's bike when I ride, but I love this thing.
My feet never feel quite even on the pegs, and I chalked it up to being a new bike with tiny little pegs, but after today's long ride I realized that the pegs are not even in their positioning. I could really feel it in my knees after a couple hours riding.
Searching the forum here, I found a number of threads that discuss this and say that on some bikes the right peg is 5/8" forward of the left peg. Oddly, my right peg seems to be offset at least 5/8" to the REAR and at a different angle.
I snapped a quick photo to try and show this. I put the orange level on the garage floor for reference, but didn't manage to get it straight. Anyway, you can see the difference in the pegs.
This is a new bike, never been dropped, hasn't even been offroad yet.
Right mount:
Left mount:
I just got home and snapped these shots. I'm going to go back out and measure to make sure I'm not just imagining this, but thought I would ask here. Are footpeg offsets like this typical?
My feet never feel quite even on the pegs, and I chalked it up to being a new bike with tiny little pegs, but after today's long ride I realized that the pegs are not even in their positioning. I could really feel it in my knees after a couple hours riding.
Searching the forum here, I found a number of threads that discuss this and say that on some bikes the right peg is 5/8" forward of the left peg. Oddly, my right peg seems to be offset at least 5/8" to the REAR and at a different angle.
I snapped a quick photo to try and show this. I put the orange level on the garage floor for reference, but didn't manage to get it straight. Anyway, you can see the difference in the pegs.
This is a new bike, never been dropped, hasn't even been offroad yet.
Right mount:
Left mount:
I just got home and snapped these shots. I'm going to go back out and measure to make sure I'm not just imagining this, but thought I would ask here. Are footpeg offsets like this typical?