Patent ID: 7497291
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: B62J

Abstract:
1. In combination with a motorcycle having a floorboard at each side thereof with the floorboards each having a top surface, a bottom, a forward end, a rearward end, and inner and outer sides; comprising: an elongated foot peg, having inner and outer ends, pivotably secured at its inner end to each of said floorboards adjacent to the forward end and the outer side thereof; each of said foot pegs being selectively movable between retracted and extended positions; each of said foot pegs when in its said extended position, extending outwardly from the associated floorboard; each of said foot pegs, when in its said retracted position, being positioned beneath the associated floorboard at the outer side thereof; each of said foot pegs being yieldably held in its extended and retracted positions by a ball detent mechanism; and a mounting plate, having upper and lower surfaces, secured to the bottom of each of the floorboards; said foot pegs being selectively pivotally secured to each of said mounting plates; said lower surface of each of said mounting plates having a pair of spaced-apart detent openings formed therein; each of said foot pegs having a detent ball movably mounted therein which is selectively received by said detent openings to yieldably maintain said foot pegs in their said extended or retracted positions.