Lowering The 4g's Pegs...

I'm looking for some lower pegs for my 4G... my knee is cramping on me on medium-to-long rides. I've been reading about people installing Buell pegs on their 5G and 6Gs after a little grinding, but I'm not certain that they'll work on the 4G.

Does anyone know for a fact that the Buell XB pegs can be ground/modified to fit the 4G? If not, what other options exist?

Thanks!

Rob

Thurn Motorsports across the pond in Germany make various bits for the RC36/VFR750, including adjustable pegs and an extended shift lever, if you can endure the poor exchange rate:

Fahrwerk-rc36


I've been experiencing the same issue so have been doing a bit of research.

Best o' luck,
Paul

[image: View Post]Corwinakira, on Aug 4 2008, 02:32 PM, said:

Thurn Motorsports across the pond in Germany make various bits for the RC36/VFR750, including adjustable pegs and an extended shift lever, if you can endure the poor exchange rate:

Fahrwerk-rc36


I've been experiencing the same issue so have been doing a bit of research.

Best o' luck,
Paul

Thanks for the info! Those really do look perfect, but holy crap, 105 Euro? That's like $150 USD! I guess I'm buying the $26 Buell pegs and breaking out Mr. Grinder! I'll let you know how it works out.

[image: View Post]Zerosum, on Aug 19 2008, 04:50 PM, said:

Thanks for the info! Those really do look perfect, but holy crap, 105 Euro? That's like $150 USD! I guess I'm buying the $26 Buell pegs and breaking out Mr. Grinder! I'll let you know how it works out.

Funny you should mention that... I was all set to order the Thurn pegs, but then, thanks to a cager making an illegal U-turn with no signal, now I find myself ordering plastics (and just a few other odds and ends like rotors, and mirrors, and a lever...) instead... :angry:

I'll be hitting some Buell pegs with my grinder as well as soon as my dealer's wrench has finished with my Viffer; yes, please let me know how your install goes-- with their slow service queue, I'll probably be following in your footsteps. :dry:

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. Based on a chunk of web research, at this point I'm showing the Motor Company part numbers for the pegs being N0520.1AD and N0521.1AD. It appears that the 4th gen and 5th gen take different Buell pegs, I'm guessing because the 4th gen's are male pegs. YMMV...

[image: View Post]Corwinakira, on Aug 20 2008, 09:23 PM, said:

[image: View Post]Zerosum, on Aug 19 2008, 04:50 PM, said:

Thanks for the info! Those really do look perfect, but holy crap, 105 Euro? That's like $150 USD! I guess I'm buying the $26 Buell pegs and breaking out Mr. Grinder! I'll let you know how it works out.

Funny you should mention that... I was all set to order the Thurn pegs, but then, thanks to a cager making an illegal U-turn with no signal, now I find myself ordering plastics (and just a few other odds and ends like rotors, and mirrors, and a lever...) instead... :angry:

I'll be hitting some Buell pegs with my grinder as well as soon as my dealer's wrench has finished with my Viffer; yes, please let me know how your install goes-- with their slow service queue, I'll probably be following in your footsteps. :dry:

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. Based on a chunk of web research, at this point I'm showing the Motor Company part numbers for the pegs being N0520.1AD and N0521.1AD. It appears that the 4th gen and 5th gen take different Buell pegs, I'm guessing because the 4th gen's are male pegs. YMMV...

Sorry to hear that your VFR got banged up...

I bought the Buell XB pegs, P/N P/N: N0006.1AD. Hopefully they'll work, I really went out on limb when I bought them. But hey, they're only $26. I can always ebay them if they can't be made to work.

I'll post pics here of the install. Later!

Rob

Rob,

I bought the same Buell XB pegs N006.1AD at the local HD store for my 93. I too had seen this mod on the later bikes done but no posts on the earlier models. Have you installed yours yet? I understand you either need to shim the larger Buell peg hole or buy bigger pins and enlarge the Honda mount holes.

Jerry

[image: View Post]Zerosum, on Aug 22 2008, 09:51 AM, said:

[image: View Post]Corwinakira, on Aug 20 2008, 09:23 PM, said:

[image: View Post]Zerosum, on Aug 19 2008, 04:50 PM, said:

Thanks for the info! Those really do look perfect, but holy crap, 105 Euro? That's like $150 USD! I guess I'm buying the $26 Buell pegs and breaking out Mr. Grinder! I'll let you know how it works out.

Funny you should mention that... I was all set to order the Thurn pegs, but then, thanks to a cager making an illegal U-turn with no signal, now I find myself ordering plastics (and just a few other odds and ends like rotors, and mirrors, and a lever...) instead... :angry:

I'll be hitting some Buell pegs with my grinder as well as soon as my dealer's wrench has finished with my Viffer; yes, please let me know how your install goes-- with their slow service queue, I'll probably be following in your footsteps. :dry:

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. Based on a chunk of web research, at this point I'm showing the Motor Company part numbers for the pegs being N0520.1AD and N0521.1AD. It appears that the 4th gen and 5th gen take different Buell pegs, I'm guessing because the 4th gen's are male pegs. YMMV...

Sorry to hear that your VFR got banged up...

I bought the Buell XB pegs, P/N P/N: N0006.1AD. Hopefully they'll work, I really went out on limb when I bought them. But hey, they're only $26. I can always ebay them if they can't be made to work.

I'll post pics here of the install. Later!

Rob

OK, two months and a large chunk of cash later, my bike is back in service, as am I. I went ahead and ordered the individual pegs, N0520.1AD and N0521.1AD as I previously mentioned. I'm convinced, however, that the N00006.1AD is just a kit with both of these in it. I just didn't feel like playing parts exchange on the slim chance the N00006.1AD turned out to not be quite right for a 4th gen.

Last week I tackled the job of getting the pegs on the bike. My left rider's peg had gotten wasted in the crash, and I'd had my dealer stick the left passenger peg on instead (this made for some interesting shifting, but was serviceable). So the first thing I did was put the passenger peg back where it belonged. Then I broke out my angle grinder and started in on the Buell peg.

About 30 minutes of grind-test-rinse-repeat later, I got a decent fit that looked like it would do the job without having pared too much metal away from the "tabs" on the peg. [ I keep forgetting to take pix, sorry 'bout that]. At some point in my bike's 32,000 mile life, the pin got bent, so I decided to replace it with a new stainless steel "universal pin" I got at my local hardware store (the universal means it was slightly longer with several holes along the pin body to choose from for inserting the cotter pin). They only had English sizes, but as noted in a thread elsewhere, the fit is still close enough to work. I purchased both VFR-sized and Buell-peg-sized pins, just in case using the smaller VFR pins proved unacceptable and I would have enlarge the holes on the VFR's bracket.

Happily, that proved to not be the case, and even though the Buell peg holes are larger than the VFR pin, by virtue of the fact the VFR mount is female, and I ground the peg's clearance on the conservative side, there was no rattling around or other "sloppiness" using the small pin. After some experimenting, I even managed to coax the original VFR spring into position around the pin in such a way that it still provided effective return pressure on the peg.

Once the left peg was done, I repeated the process with the right peg, including replacing the pin with a new one as the old one on that side was also slightly bent (I'm sure my standing on the pegs while tearing down a deserted back road when I was running late a few months back had nothing to do with this http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/style_images/1/folder_post_icons/icon10.gif). I had to make a slight readjustment to the shift lever to drop it slightly, but that was almost a given.
So far the results of the mod are awesome. For being 6 feet tall, I have long legs, and the new pegs are much more comfortable than stock. I also had my dealer throw on a pair of Heli's while they were replacing the forks, so combined with the pegs it almost feels like I'm riding a new bike. Previously, I was good for about an hour or so before my legs started to complain about being scrunched up, but now I can go 2 hours easy before I even start to feel any discomfort.

A big virtual thanks to everybody on all the other threads and boards who provided the info on this mod,
Paul

I just found these... a little pricey, $48 for the adjustable mount and $34 for the pegs that mate to it, but it's fully adjustable and made for the 4th Gen VFR. You could lower (or raise) the pegs 2" if you wanted to.

http://www.eurotechm...%2004%2003%2000

I have a set of the adjustable ones and they work great and well made.