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Originally Posted by
dallas
a spokesman of Yamaha was breaking in a new Tenere for press testrides and he let me have for a couple of hours to test it. On that occasion he told me that the footpegs of the WR also fit right on the Tenere.
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I think he exaggerated... I just bought some WR Pivot Pegz (a like for like replacement for standard WR pegs) and they won't fit on without a couple of mods - however, they are pretty straightforward:
The width of the WR peg where it pivots in the frame is 30mm while the Tenere is about 25/26mm. I simply ground down the tubular part (where the spring sits) of the new peg a few mill until it fitted in the U-bracket on the frame - this still leaves plenty of room for the spring.
I fitted the pegs and they sort of looked ok, but I realised they were drooping and pitched forward. Basically the block of the footpeg is a little too short to touch the U-bracket on the Tenere, so the peg droops down and forward. I remedied this by drilling a small hole in the flat face of the footpeg block about 8mm deep, and inserted a 5mm dome-head allen bolt as a spacer between the peg and the U-bracket - this was slightly too thick, but can be easily filed down until the peg sits level and true. Result!
ps. I'd like to say I tapped the footpeg block, inserted a helicoil and can therefore remove/replace the 5mm allen bolt as required. In reality, I drilled a 4.5mm hole and bashed the ba*tard in with a hammer until it sat flush... x
pps. I would also like to add that grinding and hammering a �100 set of footpegs is not for the fait hearted! And the stainless steel they are made of is super strong - I blunted two drill bits!
Hope that helps you all!
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