OK, I'll admit it: When I first saw the KB Highway
Pegs, I thought they were ugly.

I thought they looked spindly, kind of fragile ("Don't
leave 'em down if you're not using them; they look
like curb feelers," one friend said after riding
behind me). They didn't come down exactly horizontal
(they just needed a tad breaking in, it turned out).
And I wasn't convinced the riding position would be
that comfortable.

As it turns out, looks can be VERY deceiving, as I
learned in the middle of a 350-mile loop through the
Ozark Mountains of Arkansas during the Dying Leaf
Rally in November.

Somewhere during the run through a section that some
call the Arkansas Gap, my butt-burn turned white-hot
and my knees were throbbing like a hopped-up Harley. I
flicked down the pegs with the toes of my boots and I
swear I heard my knee  and ankle joints creak and pop
as my legs stretched out and my feet found the metal
pegs.

And suddenly, all was well.

The stretching eased the pain in my knees, and the new
position gave me another option for resting my
backside, relieving the pressure points I'd shifted
around on for two days. Sure, I backed off the throttle
about 5 miles per hour, but I wasn't having much fun
attacking those military roads (left, right, left,
right) in the condition I had been in, anyway.

Installation of the pegs is fairly simple, with the
hardest parts involving removing the side fairings and
cutting a piece of hard plastic beside the radiator.
Otherwise, it's a matter of which screw goes where;
maybe 30 minutes to an hour for the whole job. And, as
usual, Kevin Baker's parts are beautifully machined.

I've also noticed that the pegs draw a lot of
admiration from other riders for their simple but
effective design, so maybe my initial impression is in
the minority, anyway.

And that's fine by me, because after putting them to
use in the real world, only one word describes them:
Beautiful.

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KB Highway Pegs are manufactured by COG Industry
Member Kevin Baker (K & D Machine and Tool,
kbforkbrace@aol.com) and sold by COG Industry Member
Gary Murphy (www.murphskits.com). Price: $125,
shipping included.

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Bruce Alsobrook
Sulphur Springs, TX
Cog #5066
1995 Concours, "Dusty"