1. Surface Area = All-Day Comfort & Precision

Stock foot pegs are notoriously narrow. Standing on a 30mm-wide strip of metal for hours focuses all your weight on a tiny band across the arch of your boot, leading to cramping, foot numbness, and leg fatigue.

Dedicated adventure platforms—like Touratech Works Foot Pegs—expand that surface area to a stout 52mm wide. Spreading the load across a broader section of your boot sole reduces arch strain instantly and gives you far more leverage to flick a heavy bike side-to-side through tight trails.

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2. Aggressive Teeth Keep You Locked In

Factory rubber pads turn into ice rinks the moment water or mud gets involved. ADV foot peg upgrades use stainless steel claw profiles designed specifically to bite into the lug soles of ADV boots.

The secret sauce is in the tooth design: the serrated claws offer intense mechanical grip off-road, but the individual tooth tops are slightly rounded so they don’t chew up your expensive touring boots.

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3. Open, Self-Cleaning Matrix

If you’ve ever ridden through sticky clay or deep mud, you know standard pegs can turn into packed-down dirt domes. Most ADV foot peg upgrades feature an open-center layout. Clay, mud, and trail rocks fall right through the middle, ensuring your traction stays consistent no matter what the trail throws at you.

Tailoring the Cockpit: Sizing Up the Rider

Every rider’s body shape is unique, yet factory motorcycle cockpits are built around a one-size-fits-all average. Upgrading your pegs allows you to customize the “rider triangle”—the spatial relationship between your seat, handlebars, and foot pegs.

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For Tall Riders: The Low Version Saves Your Knees & Back

If you’re 6’1″ or taller, sitting on a standard ADV bike often puts your knees at an acute, cramped angle. Standing up requires a massive effort from your legs, and once you’re up, you end up hunched over the bars.

• The Fix: Touratech Works Foot Pegs – Low Version (dropping the platform roughly 20mm / 0.8″ lower than stock).

• Seated Comfort: Opens up the knee angle significantly, promoting blood flow and preventing cramping on long highway runs.

• Standing Control: Drops your center of gravity on the chassis while extending the distance between your feet and the bars. You can stand tall with a neutral, straight back instead of constantly hunching over, saving your lower back and shoulders from total exhaustion.

 

 

For Shorter Riders: Tapered Edges & Works Pro Adaptability

For riders under 5’8″, touching the ground at a stoplight or dabbling a foot on an off-camber trail requires careful planning. Oversized OEM foot pegs or bulky crash setups can get in the way of your legs, forcing your feet outward and stealing precious reach.

• The Fix: High-ground-clearance designs like the Touratech Works or the multi-adjustable Works Pro Foot Pegs.

• Better Reach to Ground: The slender profile and outward chamfered bottom edge give your legs a direct, unobstructed path straight down to the asphalt when putting a foot down at stops.

• Trail Clearance & Reach: The outward chamfering provides superior ground clearance in deep ruts or rocky lines. Meanwhile, the horizontal and vertical adjustability of the Works Pro line allows shorter riders to dial in foot placement relative to the shift and brake levers without awkward ankle extension.

 

 

What to Look For in an ADV Peg

When shopping the Touratech website for your specific bike model, look for these key engineered details:

• Electropolished Stainless Steel: Corrosion-free, ultra-durable, and reinforced at the mounting hinge to take hard hits from rocks or tip-overs without bending.

• Removable Rubber Inserts: Models equipped with pop-in rubber dampers give you smooth, vibration-free highway commuting, but snap out in seconds when you reach the trailhead.

• Tapered Underside Profile: Chamfered bottom edges prevent the peg from hanging up on rut edges or rocks when leaning the bike deep into turns off-road.

Swapping out your factory footpegs takes about 10 minutes in the garage with simple hand tools—and the payoff in control, traction, and comfort lasts for every mile of your journey.

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Hey, I’m Iain with Touratech USA and these are the Touratech Works Foot Pegs for the BMW GS’. These fit a lot of different bikes, but we’re going to be installing them on the BMW F850GS. These are the lowered version of the Works Foot Pegs. So, they actually ride a little bit lower than the stock pegs do. The foot pegs themselves are stainless steel. They’re nice and thick. They’re very strong. They include new springs and two spacers here that hold the springs into the foot pegs to make the installation a little bit easier.

The installation of the Touratech Works Foot Pegs is actually quite easy. First thing you have to do is remove the little E-clip on the bottom of the foot peg pivot pin. It’s a good idea to have your hand ready to catch this because it can spring off into the garage and be difficult to find again. With the E-clip off we now push the pivot pin out. You can remove the spring, remove the foot peg, remove the spacer.

To prepare the Touratech Foot Peg for installation make sure you select the correct side for the motorcycle. You’ll know it’s the right one if it fits into the bracket and the platform is still flat. As well as, the platform has its extension that’s wider than factory going rearward. The reason we do this is so that it doesn’t change the relationship of the distance between the foot peg and the break pedal, or the foot peg and the gear lever on the other side.

To assemble the spring in the Touratech Work Foot Peg, first you have to orient the spring so that it’s long tab will enter into the hole on the foot peg mount. And it’s short tab with bend will rest right here on the foot peg. I like to use my thumb to press the spring into the foot peg and then take the sleeve from the Touratech kit and push it down through the spring. If you’re having a hard time getting this sleeve to fit flush in the foot peg you can take the pivot pin and actually push it down until the sleeve is in the right position while pushing in with your thumb. Take the foot peg and line up the extended portion of the spring with the hole in the foot peg mount bracket. Then push the foot peg down with your hand until the pin can slide through the sleeve. Once the pin’s in place you just need to reinstall the E-clip on the bottom of the foot peg pin. The installation is exactly the same on the other side of the motorcycle, so just repeat the process and you’re ready to go.

The Touratech Works Foot Pegs are now installed. When you go out for a ride you’ll notice you got a much bigger platform to stand on which makes your feet a lot more comfortable while you’re riding. You’ll also notice that the foot pegs themselves offer a lot more grip than the stock ones do. The foot pegs are a little bit lower than stock. So you may want to go just for a short ride around your neighborhood first and make sure that your break pedal and your shifter are in good positions. You can reach them appropriately and use them the right way. So, other than that those pegs are good to go. They’re a huge upgrade from stock. You’re going to enjoy them.

If you want to learn more about products we make for the BMW F850GS visit our website Touratech-USA.com. Visit on us on social media let us know what you think of the foot pegs. We’ll see you again.

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