Scrapped my footboards for the first time, kind of startled me, but I guess that means I'm getting better with my turns.

 

After awhile you will be surprised when they don't.

I look at it as free sharpening.

 

Funny, I used to scrape them all the time, but haven't had it happen at all lately. Until today... Scared the crap out of me, and I seem to be missing a lot of chrome off my highway pegs. I guess the Mark IVs hit before my boards now, which sucks because the boards you'd never really notice, but the chrome pegs will stand out a little more with the ends and bottoms all scratched. Oh well, just shows you know how to drive. How fast were you going?

 

Mine scrape all the time, however just the other day when the wife was with me i scrapped really hard and she freaked out!! it was kinda funny because she doesnt ride much and it was her first timebeing on the bike and scraping

 

Yep, the first time I scraped floorboard, it startled me so bad that I righted the bike in mid-curve and crashed. Doesn't bother me, now. Lesson learned...

 

I wasnt going that fast, 15-20 mph, I was coming out of a turning circle that is on a hill, I have done that turn a bunch of times, and never scraped and kept wondering when it was going to happen, I guess today was the day...

 

You mean you activated your lean level indicators.

Love to scrape em. I've lean it so hard anymore that I run them on the ground nearly all the way around the exit ramps on the way to work. Between the bike being a bit lower than stock and my fat a$$ on it and the harley goodies extensions, I'm surprised when they don't scrape.

 

I scrape mine a lot too, but once I can ride again I don't think I'll be doing as much. A couple weeks ago I was turning a corner and leaned too far and ended up getting into the floorboard bracket that doesn't move and lifted my rear tire off the ground. The jump caused me to put my foot down and the saddlebag promptly clipped it. So now I am hobbling around on crutches with broken ankle and missing out on the good weather we finally got to. It probably save me from dumping the bike, but either way it was a dumb move on my part

Be carefull

 

I ride a lot of serious twisties where I live and consistently scraping boards on my lo which tells me it is reaching maximum lean angle a lot quicker than my other bikes did. Bought a set of like new standard Fatboy shocks on Ebay which are an inch higher for 125 bucks, that will help and if I still scrape some so be it.

 

Better to scrape the boards than the exhaust.


I haven't done it in a while either. Always seems to catch me off guard as it rarely happens in the same places.