I am really getting tired of looking at my floorboards on my scrambler. I have cut my fenders and the floorboards do stand out. My question is should I wait to remove the floorboards until I purchase nerf bars? Do your feet slip off the footpegs that often that i should wait for nerf bars and not end up with a broken ankle or something? If having nerf bars isnt that big of a deal, I will ride without nerfs for the time being. How hard is it to have a foot peg set up on the last bar that sticks out under the floorboard? Can i use the old pegs that are on the floorboards or should I order a set from somewhere? If so who has the best pegs for this set up? Thanks [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

anyone????

 

Going from floorboards to pegs on a scrammy will be somewhat permanent. Unbolt the floorboard and you are left with 2 square bars. The front one can go...torch it off. Keep the rear one, and install your footpegs back onto this bar that were rivited into the footwells. Otherwise Hot Seat has foot peg kits that you can rivit to the rear bar. Nerf bars arent really designed to keep you from falling off the pegs. The straps can help in an accident, but a nerf bars' main purpose is protection from outside interferrence. Ride someone's quad with pegs, and if you have a hard time staying on the pegs, I would not recommend this modification. Or you can take a sawsall or torch and round off your foot wells to make it look less bulky. You can also remove the pegs, put a 1/4 or 1/2 riser block under the peg and reinstall on the footwell, this will raise you up from the foot well and give you the foot peg feel with the floorboard protection. If anything, wait for Modquad to reply, or check out his webpage for some good pics of scrambler foot pegs with nerfs.

 

Thanks for the comments Pudl. Footpegs? You want footpegs? Have I gotta deal for you....oh, no they say. Get yourself a 1.5" x 1.5" square aluminum tubing. 7075 T-6 is what you want. Sometimes your local metal supplier has scraps you can get cheap. If you make it out of something softer like T-3, they'll get dull faster. Take about a 5-6" chunk (measure out your original peg and cut something to the size that will fit where it used to be), draw a line down the center of one side. Using a 1/2" drill bit, you kinda have to view and line things up from the side, go down that line and space them evenly. You want the points of the center of the drill bit cirlces to be sharp. Now properly clamp that sucker down in a drillpress, and go on down the line. If you did it perfectly, the two halves should almost fall apart. If it isn't quite breaking in two, you can buzz down the center with either a bandsaw, or jigsaw. YOU MAKE THESE AT YOUR OWN RISK! WEAR SAFETY GLASSES! Now drill and rivet them in place.

 

My feet usually dont come off the foot pegs so i dont think it will be a problem. I may give that a try modquad. Sounds like a nice project [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] How do you like just having the foot pegs?

 

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] that much!

 

I am personally a recreational and a somewhat aggressive rider, so the stock pegs riveted to the rear bar does just fine for me. I was a little concerned at first about the single bars holding up to riding with almost 200lbs on it, but they do just fine. I love the nerf setup,though. It changes the looks of the bike altogether.