rear brake pedal height

[George R. Young]

The rest position of the rear brake pedal has always seemed too high for me. If you ride with the boot over the pedal, it presses down on the pedal quite a bit, so I end up riding splay-footed on the right like a duck.

Took a close look at the rear brake setup and there didn't seem to be a lot of downward adjustment possibility. The 8mm lock nut was too thick.

So, dug around in the metric junk box. The stock lock-nut is 13mm across the flats and 6mm thick. There's a smaller version 12mm across the flats and about 4.5mm thick, and that 1.5mm makes all the difference.

Replaced the lock nut with the smaller version, snugged the clevis as far up against it as it would go. Now when riding, the boot just kisses the pedal, no danger of continuous application, but easy activation when you want.

Yippee! Only took 12 years to figure out.

[cc_ryder]

I had the opposite problem. I had to raise mine to achieve a balanced panic stop.
 

[billhook]

You don't need the lock nut at all.  There's no way for it turn when assembled anyway.  Most folks who add peg lowerers remove the lock nut to the extra adjustability.  Mine's been gone for 10 years and 73,000 miles, never an issue.

[T Cro ®]

You don't need the lock nut at all.  There's no way for it turn when assembled anyway.  Most folks who add peg lowerers remove the lock nut to the extra adjustability.  Mine's been gone for 10 years and 73,000 miles, never an issue.

Seems like that was exactly what I'd done likely as far back as 02/03 so long ago I no longer recall posting about it back then....

[Nosmo]

I also had to ditch the locknut when I put on the GenMar peg-lowering kit.  Seems fine without it.