As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
I also would like an answer to this one...$180 for pegs seems outrageous!
The SW-Motech pegs I'm using were only slightly less outrageous at roughly $160.
I'm pretty sure there are some low buck options if you're willing to spend a bit of time to see what other bikes share similar peg mounting dimensions. Foot pegs are kinda universal and I've found many will swap between bikes.
I ran the factory Suzuki DR650 steel cleated pegs on my KLR650 and they are cheap and not too bad. Looking at them I'm willing to bet they might fit the TR also. From some basic searching I "suspect" the foot pegs from a Vstrom might also fit (don't hold me to it) which opens up more options. I found reference to IMS pegs which look pretty good for $80.
You can get all sorts of cheap options for the DR/KLR like these for $16.
Baddrapp's post shows what's possible.
I am going to bring this up again.
Anyone found an affordable, readily available set of larger pegs yet?
Finding cheap used BMW pegs is like finding Big Foot.
Has anyone found a set of bigger/wider pegs that don’t require a mortgage to purchase?
I have been spoiled by picking up super cheapo pegs off of ebay for lots of other bikes in the past.
I just got a set in from d2moto on ebay, for my xr250. I'll check if they might fit. I bought some for my dr200 and they were great, cheap. I also bought some for my Bashan 250, and I think that is a direct fit to the TR650. One of them should fit close enough to work.
I'm just a bit leary of the cast footpegs that come. Hit a rock a bit hard, and you might be having a bit of trouble on that side.
Here is a pick of the stock Terra pegs alongside the new pegs. Different config, but works, just need to shim up behind peg to keep it level.
Second pic is from underneath, showing what need shimming. If left like it is, I'm sure the bolt head would wear the peg stop and then the pegs will sage. On my Storm, I just put a shim there to distribute the pressure evenly, so some sort of spacer would need to be made for both sides.
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These may work as well, seems to be alot of interchangeability in these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221713460025?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171363198140?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Great info, thanks for taking the time to do this.
You are not sure what model those were originally for?
Do you think it might be feasible to cut or grind off the boss on the back side that the spring rides around?
I am wondering if I can kill 2 birds with one stone by lining up the peg stop better and move the pegs back slightly (and down a little too).
I am thinking I will make or find a spool to put in front of the peg and swap the spring to the forward side.
They do sit lower than the stock ones, right?
Maybe a little forward?
Great info, thanks for taking the time to do this.
You are not sure what model those were originally for?
Do you think it might be feasible to cut or grind off the boss on the back side that the spring rides around?
I am wondering if I can kill 2 birds with one stone by lining up the peg stop better and move the pegs back slightly (and down a little too).
I am thinking I will make or find a spool to put in front of the peg and swap the spring to the forward side.
They do sit lower than the stock ones, right?
Maybe a little forward?
I have the BMW 1200 adventure pegs. I did have to file the width of the mount a tad.