Better foot forward

How do you like your footrests – forward, rear-set or standard?

Words and photographs: TIM BRITTON

I have a problem with British motorcycle footrests, in that they’re all positioned too far forward for my personal taste. Maybe it’s because of my trials-riding background – this is my 50th active year in the feet-up game – but I much prefer the footrests to be further back and slightly further down than factory setting. There are, or were, footrest kits available for a ‘C’ range Triumph such as the base of this project. Sixties dealer Bill Chuck did a race conversion on a T90 which featured in Motorcycle Mechanics of December 1967, using just such rear sets from his own range. These kits used the pillion footrest mounting lugs on the sub-frame, seemed well made – at least as far as you can tell from a news print feature…

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The Classic MotorCycle (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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