Feet on the pegs

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

With my recent incident of breaking a bone in my foot when riding I was interested when I came across this thread on advrider about foot postition, Ball of the foot or arches on the foot pegs. There is a difference of opinion amongst the riders as to which it should be, some say balls of the feet always, some say arches always and some say a combination depending on what your doing at the time.

I personally always ride with the arches of the feet on the pegs (and have also injured or had my foot caught or ripped of the pegs many times), I was told once by a friend that it should be the balls of the feet but it felt like ny feet were going to slip off at any moment, particularly in the wet. I had also read somewhere to use the arches of the feet.

What does everyone here think?

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=540997

[glennMember]

Im more towards the ball of my feet??

even using pivets I still ride like that??

Boony

[Mick DMember]

Looking at a lot of pics of me riding I tend to have no feet on the pegs mostly. :blush:

Do you run pivot pegz Jeffro?

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

No Mick,standard pegs. I will say that when I was trying the balls of the feet thing it was on my old TT600 with fairly worn out pegs and cheap boots but every bump I felt like my foot was about to slip off

[Mick DMember]

I would miss my pivots badly if I rode with out them. I tend to ride on my instep mostly .More so to the back of my instep towards the heel.So much so that sometimes the toe of my boot gets caught under my bash plate when changing gears.

[TrentMember]

This is an interesting one for me as I’m still developing my use of the controls. I find that I’m mostly on the balls of my feet and I think I do this to avoid accidentally hitting the levers and also for balance. The down side of this is that you need to move your whole foot to get the levers and it also works your quads more compared to being towards your heels which will work your glutes and hamstrings.

I also lowered my brake lever because i was locking up the rear too much when I didn’t mean to but now I feel like I really need to stretch to use the brake so I’m going to come up further again. I’m keen to go back to using pivot pegs and hope that addresses the problem.

[Anonymous]

I always thought that arch of the foot was the go. When KD started riding again I would always get up her for riding on the balls of her feet.

In my opinion only the arch of the foot with give you more control and quicker to get to your pedals when needed.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

If I’m hard on it, say at MX track, balls of feet to give me a bit more “body spring” cruising round the forest usually seated with feet on pegs just behind the balls of feet front of arch.
Whatever gives best control at the moment, like elbow position you have an attack and a “normal riding” approach.

BC

[TrentMember]

BTW I’ve cleaned my right foot up twice now and I think it might even be broken right now after smashing it on a rock on the edge of a rut on murph’s last ride. Time before that I let my foot get slammed between my peg and a stump right in that tender part on the inside of the achilles.

[alanMember]

maybe a set of glasses may help austblue :laugh: (sorry could not help myself)good boots help to

[TrentMember]

I have alpine star tech 7s and without them I would have suffered greatly. Both times I’ve belted my foot I’ve ridden on and without them I think I’d have been doubled out and straight to the horse piddle.

[michael ProttMember]

Ok, only new here to the site and don’t want to sound like a cranker but from what I have been taught (and learnt) it’s the arches all the way. In the proper “attack position” you should be able to draw a vertical line down through the centre or your backside (from the side), to the feet on the pegs, then elbows up blah blah blah. We don’t balance on the heels of our feet when we are not on the bike so how can you expect to do it standing on something 50mm wide. Just my thoughts, seems like everyone has em here…..

[DeanMember]

Yeh Protty Im the same,except when travelling through overgrown grass or close to the edge of a single trail, I then move my twinkies back a bit,rocks and stumps hurt to much :blink:

Ollie

[michael ProttMember]

See on a KTM you don’t need to move your feet, just twist your right hand to help lift the whole show that extra bit above all the nasty bits on the ground.. ha ha. I’ve got it bad, I know!

[DeanMember]

busy223 wrote:

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See on a KTM you don’t need to move your feet, just twist your right hand to help lift the whole show that extra bit above all the nasty bits on the ground.. ha ha. I’ve got it bad, I know!

:ohmy: The Orange curse has already got to him :laugh:

Ollie

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