The little things that bother us

[the Ferret]

You know there are certain things about motorcycle designs and executions that bother us. With regards to the CB 1100, for some it's the muffler design or size, for others excessive decals or reflectors, for a few the design size or location of tail lights or turn signals, the size of the mirrors, the size of the fenders, the location of the oil cooler, or the fact that the rear tire doesn't fill out the space between swing arm and fender. None of that bothers me much. Here's what I just had to do something about

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I hated the look of these " curb feelers". Yes, I know their purpose, to contact the ground before anything else in a curve, to warn me that I have leaned over too far. Who am I kidding? I haven't scraped a peg since 1978. Remember it well, riding my new demo GL1000 naked wing on my way to announce a motocross race. I entered a left hand turn a little too fast, leaned her over hard and scraaaaaape. Hasn't happened since and likely never gonna happen again.

The curb feelers had to go.

Looked on a microfiche and it appeared it was just a chromed 8x32 mm bolt ( no nut) and a collar. Grabbed a 12 mm box end wrench, put it on the nut, a little tug to the left ( counter clockwise when looking head on..lefty loosey) and it broke loose and I unscrewed the assembly. Did same to other side footpeg.

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Dang, that improved the looks of this bike a lot for me.

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