Author Topic: stupid honda putting stupid footpegs on the stupid swingarm.... (Read 4594 times)

aaron · « **on:** May 20, 2005, 07:07:00 PM »

cb400f - any idea when (if) honda stopped doing this?
I was planning a full resto, as authentic as possible, then replacing a few bits to cafe it. when i grow up, i'll bolt the stock bits back on. then i see this! gotta have a seat for the wife, but i hate the idea of her legs becoming active dampers/shocks! bad for the handling, bad for the knees! i hear they changed this, anyone got some nice pics of the later placement? anyone been a passenger on footpegs like this? am i overreacting?

Zeke · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:21:15 PM »

Shouldn't be to hard to change:

On my 650, there is a triangle of steel welded to the frame right behind the front pegs. Would be easy to fab.

All you have to do, is put the holes for the pegs in the same location but with clearance for the swingarm and you're done.

Of course, then it wouldn't be stock......

Zeke

Tim. · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:58:45 PM »

You want to 'cafe' the bike, but you're concerned about footpegs for a passenger?

Unless you're taking your wife for rides on washboard gravel roads, I don't think she'll have any trouble with the footpeg placement. I wouldn't bother spending any time or effort on trying to re-locate them.

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:03:08 PM »

Aaron, It's not a problem. The early 125/150 had the pegs on the swingarms.
C92 C/CA95 CB92/95 models had them, but CBs (bolt on items where extras)

Gordon · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2005, 11:10:55 PM »

My wife never had a problem riding on the back of my 400F.

oldbiker · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2005, 01:34:57 AM »

You could always buy a later frame that has the pegs on a separate mounting from a breaker and trasfer everything over.

Einyodeler · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2005, 03:42:53 AM »

Quote from: aaron on May 20, 2005, 07:07:00 PM

cb400f - any idea when (if) honda stopped doing this?
gotta have a seat for the wife, but i hate the idea of her legs becoming active dampers/shocks!

My wife is always an active damper , when on the back of the bike she really puts a damper on things like scraping pegs.That`s why she rides her own now

neckyzips · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2005, 04:58:30 AM »

leave em on there, her legs may be better than the stock shocks! i have a set of bolt anywhere pegs, if you have a frame tube close you can bolt them on, and off at your whim.
joe

neckyzips · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2005, 07:05:42 AM »

what a pretty job you have done on your frame... did you polish out the bits too?

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2005, 11:13:46 AM »

In the UK the F1 had pegs on the swingarm, the F2 had them on the frame.

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2005, 11:15:34 AM »

Supersport - that's a glorious looking frame resto.

My 550K3 was restored by a guy who does E-Types for a living. He even powder coated the brake arm (unlike yours!)

dusterdude · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2005, 05:06:01 PM »

harley-davidson has been doing the footpeg on the swingarm thing since 1958,hasnt hurt anyone i know

dusterdude · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2005, 06:04:01 PM »

exactly what

dusterdude · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2005, 06:44:55 PM »

oh,i wasnt aware you should be corner carving with someone on the back.my mistake.

Gordon · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2005, 07:33:14 PM »

I think the passenger pegs on the 400F were nothing more than an afterthought. That bike wasn't really meant for riding two-up on.

Sort of like the trunk of a convertible sports car. It's only there "just in case".

aaron · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2005, 02:18:39 PM »

some food for thought here...

I like the "bolt on" universal peg idea...
i can unbolt the swingarm mounted ones and re-bolt them when i want it bone stock again...

neckyzips - any pics of these? unless i can get them for $30-40 cdn, I'll fab my own...

dpen · « **Reply #16 on:** May 22, 2005, 11:08:21 PM »

try a CB750 where the brake linkage is also on the swing arm-interesting over ripples on the road

heffay · « **Reply #17 on:** May 23, 2005, 03:26:26 PM »

Quote from: tintin on May 20, 2005, 07:58:45 PM

You want to 'cafe' the bike, but you're concerned about footpegs for a passenger?

i agree... if it is a true cafe (in my opinion) there should be NO PLACE for da wife! i recommend an entirely different motorcycle for her with her very own footpegs. then you both can be scraping the pegs no problem.

kyre · « **Reply #18 on:** May 23, 2005, 03:56:01 PM »

yes it was stupid they put them on the swingarm that's why they stopped doing it in 77 for the 400/4 although those were only made from 75-77 anyways. I think the 400/4 sucks for a passenger anyways, my girlfriend hates riding on the back because the stupid seat design too. that's why I'm putting a solo seat on it now.

aaron · « **Reply #19 on:** May 23, 2005, 08:57:38 PM »

I think the passenger pegs on the 400F were nothing more than an afterthought. That bike wasn't really meant for riding two-up on.

Sort of like the trunk of a convertible sports car. It's only there "just in case".

if it is a true cafe (in my opinion) there should be NO PLACE for da wife! i recommend an entirely different motorcycle for her with her very own footpegs. then you both can be scraping the pegs no problem.

it'll be a cafe for me, then when she's ready, it'll be hers. thing is, I would like to restore it as stock, than convert it. this way when i want it "as orignal" later in life i can just bolt on the stock bits (freshly restored before storage)

but until i've got another bike, she'll have to ride on the back...and having gone through knee surgery, i'm a little cautious with undue shocks to em...

Besides, I like my bikes predictable... if a bikes got active damping, i want to be the one programming it! random inputs to the rear wheel are not my thing.

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