Has anyone tried "rear sets" on their bike with any problem? I mean is it just a ground clearance thing or is the sit and control situation better?

 

I'm not trying to tell you what you need, but in my opinion if you're not dragging knees or scraping pegs, you dont NEED rear sets. They will just make it more uncomfortable to ride around on. If you just want to do it to pimp your ride, go right ahead. They're expen$ive though.

 

I was checking out the price and oh baby they are expensive. With that said I heard it gives more control. As far as clearance goes I have plenty for my kind of riding. I typically might do a few track days next year, and I might take Freddie Spencer's school in Vegas if I can come up with the money, but for the most part I enjoy doing about 2-300 miles a day cutting in and out of the mountain ranges we have near Portland Oregon. I heard that these rear sets give more control, but I never gave much thought to how uncomfortable they might be.

jg

 

You may want some more opinions on them from people that have had them. i've never had any because i never had a reason to get them. I dont think the newer sportbikes are as likely to hit the pegs on the road like the older ones. The F2 i used to have had worn through the peg feelers and about 1/4inch into the peg itsself. I scraped some on the 900RR i have too. On the R1 i just bought, even though i took the feelers off, I've never been down low enough to scrap them. I've never heard the magazine editors complain about low pegs on any of the bikes they've test ridden lately. They may very well give you a sense of better control. That's something I wouldnt know since i've never ridden with them. They will jack your legs up high though like a jockey.

 

If you're pretty fast on track days, you'll get your stock pegs down. I have the Vortex rearsets and they're awesome! Look cool too. That said, IMHO if you're draggin' peg on the street you need to hit the track. If you're not draggin' pegs there's no need unless you just want the bling, though the fully adjustable pegs from Vortex, Harris ,and Gilles to name a few allow for down and forward movement of the pegs to a very small degree.

 

I run with stock pegs, i`ve taken the stupid stalks off of course there redicoulous but i`ve found that my fairing touches down before the pegs do now. But i ride with my toes on the pegs some people prefer the centre of the foot on the peg if your one of these and you like track then you`ll need rearsets, you can also get jackup plates for the original rests.


Here ya go look at this pic and see where the pegs (well u can make out my toe) are in relation to the ground compared with the fairing>>>>




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Adjustable rearsets can be made more OR less comfortable. You can raise them for track use or lower them for long commutes. Non-adjustables will usually raise and move your pegs back about a quarter inch. I have fully adjustable Yoshimura rearsets on my racebike and they work great, though I wouldn't want to ride across country with them adjusted as they are. Hope this helps.

 

wow, what aprt of your fairing touches the ground first?

 

Thats a good point i forgot about, i found my stockers comfy good for 400+ miles besides ya gotta stop every 100 miles or so for fuel so i have a little stretch and i`m good t go.

L8X the fairing just kisses down around the ridge in the middle of the fairing, only sometimes just reflecting on that i`ve never had the pegs touch. My toes yes pegs no.

 

the fairing will drag at the track if you are in a turn with eather a incline or if it has the safty markers. I have dragged my pegs and not the fairings on a flat track without the markers and when i replaced them for Harris rear-sets i then needed to adjust the shifter higher because it also dragged.



Notice the shifter dragged