Bad Knee - Foot Position

[mushupork]

Took my first long road trip last week.  1000 miles in 3 days with a day at the ballgame in between.  I learned some things.  One thing was that I have a bad knee ... or at least worse than I thought.  Highway pegs are ugly, don't suit the Bandit (in my opinion) and require case guards.  Are there frame sliders that could double as another place to rest your feet for awhile?  I've done some searches but haven't found a post about this and the frame sliders I see online don't look long enough.

Thanks.

[FREDMAG]

Hi there, sorry for digging up an old post but I have the same issue, just wondering if you ever found a solution?  Over the winter I want to set something up.  Thanks,

Fred

[mushupork]

nope - no replies, no ideas

[mosquito]

LOL  Sometimes it takes three or four days for the good responses to come in, FREDMAG.  (Or maybe years?)

I don't have a solution for you, but I have seen sliders on the site somewhere.  Nothing comes up in a search?

[r_outsider]

This one does go back a ways...
As someone with a bad case of motocrosser knees (...and ankles, and wrists, and frontal lobe, and shoulders, definitely the shoulders, and back, and...) I've found the easiest thing to do is to move around on the bike a bunch, and ride with people who can't go as long as you, like chain smokers or something, so you take more frequent breaks than you ordinarily would to walk around and stretch. You could probably find some sliders or some rearsets, and it might help but the cheapest and probably smartest thing is to just get off the bike more. And take lots of Advil.

[mademiriam]

people who can't go as long as you, like chain smokers or something,

+1 on that...
oh and the moving around a bunch is the cheapest option. Occasionally on the highway I'll drape my legs over the passenger pegs, and if I HAD case guards even not very long ones I'd be setting my legs on those too. Sometimes I just stand on the pegs for a few minutes to stretch out. Thanks to me never treating my body like a temple, but more of an assault vehicle, pills have become a must on occasion, it's much better of course the have the advil (or pain killer of choice) prior to the ride...than half way through when you're sore.

[aussiebandit]

I've found the easiest thing to do is to move around on the bike a bunch, and ride with people who can't go as long as you, like chain smokers or something, so you take more frequent breaks than you ordinarily would to walk around and stretch.

Now I know why some the guys on sports bikes like going for rides with me, I stop every hour or so for a smoke and a coffee (I always take a thermos or 2 of coffe with me on rides).

[stormi]

Occasionally on the highway I'll drape my legs over the passenger pegs, and if I HAD case guards even not very long ones I'd be setting my legs on those too. Sometimes I just stand on the pegs for a few minutes to stretch out. Thanks to me never treating my body like a temple, but more of an assault vehicle, pills have become a must on occasion, it's much better of course the have the advil (or pain killer of choice) prior to the ride...than half way through when you're sore.

+1 all things I do,.. and I have sliders (which I recently used :( ) that were previously only for my feet.

Though I'm not sure how you drape your legs over the passenger pegs,... I can only get the bridges of my feet there...   must be because I'm so short.

I finally have the really funny pills, the ones that if I take them, I'm done riding for the day, but feeling no pain.  That's for a back / hip issue though, not knees.

edit: and that person that r_outsider rides with that takes breaks more often than him?   Yeah, it's me.