Finally got my IRM Gemini 1250 pegs installed and dialed in. Simple install. Wish I had done it earlier. I am hella impressed with the operation of these pegs. They give you two options for where to put your legs on those long highway touring rides. You know, the whole reason you bought a rugged, off-roading, water-fording, hill-climbing, mud-slinging bike, to take it for long rides on the highway. When there you will need to reposition your feet now and then. 30-50 year olds, feel free to deny that your lower extremities ache after a couple of hours on the OEM pegs, those of us for whom this bike was actually designed, marketed, and sold for know that leg position options are not options but are requirements. IRM has designed a single bracket that supports two options. Both pegs fold neatly next to the head to keep a sleek and stylish esthetic. Both, with a little practice, can be sightlessly located with the heavy armored off-road boot that you won't be caught dead riding your highway GS without, and deployed to the footrest position. These things are sleek, .... as in slim. They are sturdy enough to rest your feet on. I would not recommend them for stunts. No dank nooners, no alternative-peg stoppies, no riding down the road sitting on the front fender backwards and hanging from the bars with your feet clinging to the IRM pegs. Simply not designed for that. But both will support your feet for as long as you choose to hang them there in two different, cramp relieving, ache soothing, postions. And do it in style. The thing that drew me to these is the finely tuned operating functions as they fold out and then back in. Not hard and clunky but smooth and silky movement, almost as if the designers were channeling ancient 21st century BMW engineers (except for the transmission guys, those can still be a bit clunky (but they are getting better!)). If you are an aficionado of smooth operation, you will like these pegs. Installation requires loosening up the lower head crash bars, some reversing of lefty-loosy-righty-tighty for upside-down bolts, careful following of finely written instructions, a light coating of thread lock fluid over several fingers, and a torque wrench. You may also need to try out some of the positions before you thread-lock in you final setting. I used a pair of vise-grips (pair? no just one) to hold the positioning cam lugs in position while I tightened the bolts securing them. The set comes shipped in a shape conforming styrofoam block to ward against the soul destroying package handling equipment at UPS. So if you have given up on the dream of turning your GS Adventure into the next exotic stunt bike, you might give these pegs a look see. Gemini 1250 Pegs - GS – IRM Moto
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Finally got my IRM Gemini 1250 pegs installed and dialed in. Simple install. Wish I had done it earlier. I am hella impressed with the operation of these pegs. They give you two options for where to put your legs on those long highway touring rides. You know, the whole reason you bought a rugged, off-roading, water-fording, hill-climbing, mud-slinging bike, to take it for long rides on the highway. When there you will need to reposition your feet now and then. 30-50 year olds, feel free to deny that your lower extremities ache after a couple of hours on the OEM pegs, those of us for whom this bike was actually designed, marketed, and sold for know that leg position options are not options but are requirements. IRM has designed a single bracket that supports two options. Both pegs fold neatly next to the head to keep a sleek and stylish esthetic. Both, with a little practice, can be sightlessly located with the heavy armored off-road boot that you won't be caught dead riding your highway GS without, and deployed to the footrest position. These things are sleek, .... as in slim. They are sturdy enough to rest your feet on. I would not recommend them for stunts. No dank nooners, no alternative-peg stoppies, no riding down the road sitting on the front fender backwards and hanging from the bars with your feet clinging to the IRM pegs. Simply not designed for that. But both will support your feet for as long as you choose to hang them there in two different, cramp relieving, ache soothing, postions. And do it in style. The thing that drew me to these is the finely tuned operating functions as they fold out and then back in. Not hard and clunky but smooth and silky movement, almost as if the designers were channeling ancient 21st century BMW engineers (except for the transmission guys, those can still be a bit clunky (but they are getting better!)). If you are an aficionado of smooth operation, you will like these pegs. Installation requires loosening up the lower head crash bars, some reversing of lefty-loosy-righty-tighty for upside-down bolts, careful following of finely written instructions, a light coating of thread lock fluid over several fingers, and a torque wrench. You may also need to try out some of the positions before you thread-lock in you final setting. I used a pair of vise-grips (pair? no just one) to hold the positioning cam lugs in position while I tightened the bolts securing them. The set comes shipped in a shape conforming styrofoam block to ward against the soul destroying package handling equipment at UPS. So if you have given up on the dream of turning your GS Adventure into the next exotic stunt bike, you might give these pegs a look see. Gemini 1250 Pegs - GS – IRM Moto
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" the designers were channeling ancient 21st century BMW engineers"........ That kind of conjuring doesn't come cheap! This wasn't some kind of back yard séance with chicken bones and hogs teeth.
That's a $500 abomination far as I'm concerned.......to each their own of course. 
That's a $500 abomination far as I'm concerned.......to each their own of course.
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The IRM pegs may be in the higher price category but I am definitely passing on the pressure washing wand held on by hose clamps. 😂 I am short in stature and don't think I could reach the pedals on that one.
On a serious note, you might want to add a few more hose clamps so that a tip over doesn't lead to despair out a ways from easy help.
On a serious note, you might want to add a few more hose clamps so that a tip over doesn't lead to despair out a ways from easy help.
Schoolyard bullies never grow up, always trying to throw shade on others to mask their own "measurement" shortcomings, vertical or horizontal! Maybe both!!
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Wasn't trying to "bully". was simply directing my comments to what I saw in your pictures. If it works for you then you have all you need regardless of my reaction. Just as I have found pegs that work for me that do not include the use of hose clamps in a manner not consistent with their design and aren't the cheapest clamp-ons from someplace in China that look glomped onto whichever tube is closest to the position. Those solutions work for those that bought them. Just seems to me that if we are going to dabble in some of the most expensive bikes made that a refined approach to farkling our rides wouldn't attract so much negativity about the price paid. If this were a Norton forum or perhaps Royal Enfield the cheaper alternatives to long ride foot position would possibly be better homed and an elegent but expensive solution more prone to ridicule. As to my shortcomings, both verticle and horizontal, I have lived with them all my life and have found that in spite of my defect, or perhaps because of my defect, I have found I get along just fine. Most of my humor is self depricating as I have no need to aggrandize my own position. I have also found that taller individuals are unnerved that someone as short as myself is as well centered as I am and react by announcing their own insecurities. But, to each his own, we gather on this forum to share and commune on matters of motorcycles. I would hope that if we met in person you would good naturedly rib me about my ride and I would find suitable affect to rib you about yours without provoking each other to fist-a-cuffs over what are simply personal choices.
Be safe and go in peace.
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I'm pretty darn interested in their saraha line for my '05, I like the clean line install and they seem to be right where I would want them holding my feet out there wishing there was something to rest on. Just laying my legs up on the bars is putting alot of heat into my calf even through my boots. $250 for the stated and observed quality seems fair. A little worried about get offs tearing them up but it looks like the swmoto crash bars will take the bulk of the hit. I've gotten a few marks on the valve cover from rocks and such when laying the bike on its side checking for oil leaks.... but I don't think they stick out far enough to take a substantial hit enough to damage them on an average get off.
they are on my list, everything else i've explored stick out further, mount where they will take the big hit when dropped, or I perceive as if sliding they have the potential to rotate on the crashbar and have a component dig into the valve cover which is unacceptable to me.
they are on my list, everything else i've explored stick out further, mount where they will take the big hit when dropped, or I perceive as if sliding they have the potential to rotate on the crashbar and have a component dig into the valve cover which is unacceptable to me.
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I finally got out on the road for a long test of my Gemini 1250 Pegs as well as some other hardware.
I am still quite impressed with the design and function of these pegs. And since my calves rest against the crash bars adjacent to the heads, I get the vibrations through them, providing a mild massage effect. Those Saharas look like a nice blend to the design.
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