Experienced riders on a variety of message boards say when you start scraping pegs, you’re not entering the corner correctly… Either way too hot or not picking the right line. Scraping your parts is like a final warning that you’re skirting on the edge of a low side. It also leaves you vulnerable to anything that might pop out. You have almost no chance of standing the bike up for an emergency stop and if you’re on a decreasing radius turn and your drifting wide into the other lane, you pretty much have no room to lean more which at best means you blow the turn and at worst you loop it. I’ve seen some people that think scraping pegs is cool and it certainly would give you a sphincter-puckering, adrenaline rush, but most I’ve seen don’t think highly of those that consistently scrape parts with shouts of squid thrown in exchanges.
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If there’s anything more important than my ego
around, I want it caught and shot now…