Has anyone spotted anywhere I might get a brake pedal that folds up yet? I've seen a mod using a pedal from a different bike but I was wondering if anyone made one? It seems like an obvious thing and I thought i'd seen one on Touratech but they only do the gear lever. I had an off today and it's well bent!! Any advice will be much appreciated!

Cheers Jay

with my english will be difficult to explain but....

I had bent mine quite a few times and I learned, that ussually it is not getting bent because of the... end part, which is not foldable, but because of the lever (metal plate) BEFORE THIS END (not foldable) PART.

The problem is that the lever is lead under the pegs, and so it is too low. When you fall on the side, the lever touches the ground first.
This can be properly solved only in case, you will modify the brake lever and lead it over the foot peg. In this case when you will have a side slide, the pedal will not touch the ground, and it will not bend ... or at least very rarely.
This is (one of) my winter project!

hi jayb, no one to my knowledge make a folding tip brake lever for the tenere, a few on here including me have made up ones by welding on folding ends from the likes of xr's etc.

the easiest and simple solution is cutting the lever 'pad' to a more sensible size, i've yet to find fault with proper off-road pedals such as on a ktm, tiny and fixed!. the one i really don't get is the t*tech, you pay out for a massive clumsy albeit pretty extension which is as much use as a chocolate tea pot!

don't forget a brake snake is perhaps the biggest help!

a funky artistic shot from this time last year

Snake brake is much easyer solution, but does it really works?
How is it in practice?

It it does I might be interested in fitting one, since it is simple solution.

As Stoic suggests, I also cut mine down by 1/3rd, and it made a huge difference - I also fitted a brake snake which again stops it bending out so readily...





This is what used to happen:



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Well now I know what to do to help prevent my pedal from bending too far when I fall off! Any tips on straightening the damn thing using DIY tools?
I've managed to move the plate out but the pedal sits too high making braking an on/off procedure, not much fun on wet, slimy winter roads.