With the best will in the world I'm not going to use Moto Cross riding techniques on a loaded up bike with another 5000 miles stretching out in front of me. And, having done long trips on a bike (a few of them actually) where reaching the ground was an issue, I'm now older and wiser via my own experience - and that experience - as I posted before - involved having to master tippy toe techniques. With that behind me I try to avoid it for all the reasons I gave before. If that means my off road adventures are going to have to be curtailed for lack of ground clearance or because I haven't graduated from the Latest Dakar God Off Road Riding School, then so be it.

You're right that sooner or later there's a good chance everyone will come a cropper even if they can plant both feet. I did it a few years ago on a bike where I can plant both feet when I stopped on a flooded road and put my foot into a submerged pothole. And many years ago on a long Euro trip I was following someone on a GoldWing when he missed a gearchange on a hairpin turn. His leg was too short for the (extreme) camber and the bike ended up upside down in a ditch. Both of those incidents could / should have been avoided but I don't want to head off somewhere on a bike where it could happen at every set of traffic lights. If there's no other alternative and that's the bike I'm stuck with I'll take messing up the steering geometry by lowering it over hoping there's no sand of gravel under the tip of my boot every time I just manage to get a toe down.

Your post leads to the question about why we travel on motorcycles - whether it's for the buzz of the ride itself, or whether it's the travel experience that matters.