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OK, so I ran this bike as it came with the wimpy stock pegs, and it felt fine! I was faster on this bone stock bike than my Aprilia, so I said to myself I am not going to go down the path of rearsets and dialing in rearsets and fine tuning rearsets and fiddling with the angle of the shift rod and spline and all the other agonizing issues related to rearsets.
I just wanted more meaty pegs. So I went and bought these Chinese pegs that are a bit fatter, mount in the stock rearsets and are also 'adjustable'
As you can see in this photo, the peg is beefier and I got it to sit up a bit forward and higher than the stock peg. So far so good right?
But two problems. a) they are still folding pegs; I would have preferred fixed pegs that also act as a slider aka woodcraft pegs. b) the hardware they provided is totally wimpy and the whole peg seemed to have some give when I stood on it or tried to twist it by hand.
So I replaced the hardware with my own, these go in deeper and take more threads. The pegs feel more solid now. Generous use of Blue loctite of course.
So a couple of questions -
a) Do these seem kosher to you?
b) Is there a way to 'convert' folding pegs to fixed pegs? A simple google doesn't bring up anything. Any safe way to jam something in the bracket to keep the peg from folding up?