Foot peg blues

Took the Commando for a ride yesterday. Still working on my starting technique so good to get it running.

Was quietly cruising when I came to a speed hump and the right side foot peg snapped off. It made changing gears rather difficult.

Are there any foot pegs made of stuff that won't break?

Thanks

Frank

I'd get some rearsets. Around here we call them speed bumps, speed humps are something totally different.

Normally there is nothing wrong with the footpegs and they last forever. If someone in the past tried to bend them with a pipe then they become weakened and will break. Also there are Emgo ones available now that are junk.

I don't know that they were ever bent but it just snapped in half.

Funny but the correct term for speed humps around here is traffic pacifiers.

Frank

lawman said:

I don't know that they were ever bent but it just snapped in half.

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If it is the peg you can replace it.

http://www.nortonmotors.de/ANIL/Norton% ... &Plate=015

Just get the ones from Andover and be good for another 40 years.

In the islands the locals call speed bumps- sleeping policeman. I always liked that term.
Mike

Something had to of damaged the peg prior as I have crashed many many many times on pegs and its takes pilot injurious speed/impacts to break em off so by far most of my crashes the pegs saved paint and mirrors and bars and lever and signals. I and many others have crashed to bend the long supports into the cases dinging cases some but the robust pegs held up though the rubbers ends ground off. Maybe just maybe someone followed the manual torque level on it.
Last one I busted off was d/t trailer railing binding I didn't know about so got to rally to find it missing and extra hard to shift. A smarter owner than me whipped out a spare bolt out his kit and got me going till I returned it for my return home. Rear sets are such an improvement in so many ways I no longer think its cheating to fit them and now think its for pure show and endurance to retain the factory foot supports. Kicker kicking the back of calves is a non issue with rear sets for instance not to mention better bio-mechanics.

I'm confused as usual. Is it a one piece unit or a 2 piece with a separate rod for the rubber? I just don't understand how it could break off unless something was fractured to start with.

So was it the rod with the rubber that comes out of the casting or the casting itself (06/0473)? Mine was originally one piece but someone drilled the rubber holder out and put on threaded rods.

My experience is they break fairly easily. Once went down gently on some ice and it broke and once accidentally let it tip over, no more than a year ago, and couldn't catch it. Snapped the left footpeg. It happens.

DogT said:

I'm confused as usual. Is it a one piece unit or a 2 piece with a separate rod for the rubber? I just don't understand how it could break off unless something was fractured to start with.

So was it the rod with the rubber that comes out of the casting or the casting itself (06/0473)? Mine was originally one piece but someone drilled the rubber holder out and put on threaded rods.

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Early Commando ('68-'70) had the peg welded into the mount. Later units were tapped with a threaded peg. It was common practice when the early style broke or bent, to simply drill and tap them for the later pegs.

Yes , have 68 to 70 peg- knowledge and they were indeed welded to the arm ,then chromed, a mess to deal with should the bike be dropped. Hurt primary covers so Norton started making snap off style to protect the covers.

Ron L said:

Early Commando ('68-'70) had the peg welded into the mount. Later units were tapped with a threaded peg. It was common practice when the early style broke or bent, to simply drill and tap them for the later pegs.

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Yeah, I see that in my parts book. Someone had already drilled them out when I got mine at 4K miles.

I just have a pair of 3/8 x 4-1/2 bolts in there... I've dropped the thing a few years back and it broke off. not really a frame slider, but that was the only damage done