Hm... I think maybe we are talking about two different things here Trevor? I am talking about foot rests being bent to where they are pointing downwards at like 5-10 degrees (and that's also how I understood the original question in the thread). And you Trevor are talking about a foot rest being slam-bent completely out of whack to where it is pointing straight up. Quite the different thing. And I totally agree with you; that could never be caused by a human body.
Now I find this discussion is getting out of hand and I have no need to question your many years of knowledge, nor to continue debating. I just wanted to clarify that I think we miss understood each other a bit.
Best regards,
Simon
Simon,
I understood what you were saying but there is no way repeated bouncing up & down on a malleable iron casting can ever cause it to bend, even if you did it for one thousand years .
You might get a little flex but more like the through bolt bending than the foot peg bending and even the steel engine mounting plates bending bit the foot peg woun't.
You can lift the entire bike by the foot peg and it still does not bend .
Both my foot rests were bent up and back. I turned an arbor to fit the mounting holes, clamped the arbor in the vise, heated the mounts with an oxy/ acetylene torch and using a couple of adjustable wrenches, bent them back to their approximate original positions. The edges were also ground from the previous owners falling off, I built those up and ground them back down to about what they would have originally been.
Well in keeping with the previous post regarding the outcome of the issues being solved i can say that after studying the angles i took the footrests to the shop next door to me where they have a large vice and oxy acetylene and proceeded to bend them to where i thought they should be only to find out that after installing them they are still not at the right angle so..... when im ready i will take the bike there and do them on the bike...... honestly they looked correct in the vice ha ha
