Riding very long days, day after day, and having your knees and legs cramp up from the accumulated stagnant position - it can hurt bad! Sure standing can leviate som of this - but if your going to do 12 hour rides, it might not be enough.

Twice it got so bad that I had to do a street side mod (once on a classic Vespa Scooter, and once on a BMW F650GS Dakar). What I did in both occations was to zip tie a wooden board across the front of the bike, with a few inches protruding to each side (attached to the front luggage rack on the vespa, and on the crash bars on the bimmer). With this set up I could then use these as foot rests - where I could extend my legs straight and forward. I could lounge it as I cruised happily along in one gear on deserted straight roads, recovering for the more active riding bits that followed - it was blissful!!!

From a safety perspectice I didn't have my feet on the controls, and a crash would also probably have hurt a hell of a lot more - but I could continue without excrutiating pain (on these ride, far more dangerous).

I've never really come arround to exploring my options beyond what I did back then, but back then it made me think that it could be a good idea to add a second set of foldable foot pegs to the front of the bike... or maybe a set of those huge foldable foot rests you see on many cruisers.

What are your thoughts? Anyone seen such a setup?

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Sure, it's very common. Google "highway pegs". Mostly on American-style cruisers, but I have definitely seem them on fully-farkled GSes.

I have stretched my legs out on bars/sliders after a long day, but it would have to be a long straight road with good visibility and no other traffic.

If not occupied slide back on the seat and put your feet on the pillion pegs.

Saves about 0.0000002 mpg and increases an MZ's cruising speed to 85.2 mph as your head is lower

Andy

Or, yu could allways do it like these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJP-XhY_SCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSS8ZMX1Vc

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Is there not a danger the bike could pivot on the foot rest and flip over in the event of a spill.
or you could just rest on top or crash bar or even ( if you can ) on your tank !

I really doubt that would happen. When it in use, they are folded away. If that is a concern, since you won’t be standing on those pegs, but only rest your feet on them, you could cut a breakaway/fracture point in the fasteners by hacksawing halfway through the retaining bolts. The bolt would then become s sacrificial part, so you would need to carry a spare bolt. Also, you wouldn't have to tighten them that hard in the first place. That way they could rotate on the crash bar laterally, and fold upwards vertically, in the event of a crash, and snap completely off if you went down hard. You could probably get away by simply zip tying them on. It would only have to hold 30 or so kgs I would assume. You could therefore make them very weak. (Average weight of a human leg is less than half of that, or so days google).

Anyways, I would think that these precautions would be monster insurance, and I probably would have tightened it hard with no breakaway, or just use zip ties.

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Not sure how yet, but I have every intension of putting hiway pegs on my F800GS. Once done, I'll post pics. Here's the deal - open hiway, good tarmac, little traffic, no issue. Be smart about using them, but even getting a small break with a different riding position is heaven on long haul trips.

Now the story part - and I in NOW WAY endorse this riding style.

I finally got a throttle lock for my bike (years ago now) and was on an almost deserted 4 laner outside of Quebec city. Well, I hopped onto the passenger seat, no hands and rode like that for 75 km....steering bike with my legs....You shoulda seen the faces on the few folk who caught a glimpse. Afterwards I thought, wow, that was really stupid....but fun, and I'm alive....but lets never do it again.