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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