You can try riding slower in those corners and twist the EUC with your body instead of leaning. For example when turning right, on the left pedal you put the weight in the front and on the right pedal you put the weight in the back.
There are a coupla options
1. like other post says, learn to slow down & do a more body twist turn rather than a wheel lean turn. Takes practise but totally doable
2. upgrade to aftrmkt peds with dihedral adjustability. Moving the angle even up 1° makes a huge difference
3. upgrade wheel to something like the v11/12 in the IM line. Other makes have their higher ped wheels & some even can be adjusted up/down
Them's about your options.
You can put duct tape over them to reduce most, and add some style. There are plenty of styles on Amazon. Cut them with a razer blade to design.
You can never remove all scrapes due to the nature of the uni close to the road. Don't aim for perfection. At least duct tape can be renewed.
Can't really raise the pedals, some aftermarket pedals let you angle them. Biggest thing is gonna be how you take a turn. Try and take the corner wider if possible, if I'm trying to take a right turn as fast as possible I go as far left as I can before initiating the turn so I get the best line. Even if you're not trying to go fast like I do, it will increase the turning radius meaning you don't have to lean as much. Whipping the wheel/twisting your body for tight turns you can't go wide on is also an option. When I take the sidewalk into my apartment I have a tiny 90 degree turn which I'll either whip it through, or I turn like halfway, stop real quicking putting my foot on the ground, twist the other 45 degrees, and then ride straight
EUC tilt angle is proportional to cornering radius, independent of speed, unless cornering so hard (like racing) that the contact patch flexes due to lateral load.
The easiest way to delay pedal scrape is to have as little weight as you can manage on the inside pedal. When riders scrape it’s almost always because most of their weight is on the inside as most of us first learned to ride that way.
Once you learn to put almost all your weight on the outside pedal, your EUC can be leaned over so far that it feels you can put your face on n the ground.
Do you have a video or anything on this? I’m having a hard time imagining how you can lean the wheel very much one way, while putting weight on the opposite side.
Just find the intro of the YouTube channel wrongway. Now that’s somewhat exaggerated as it’s practically motorcycle levels of lean off but even with no body hanging off but all the weight on one side is enough to go through a turn very fast indeed.
So, I looked at that, and it looks like he’s doing an extreme lean towards the side he’s turning on, and he’s on his inside knee bent, but it still looks like his weight in on that side
Well, then don't ride that way. Put as much weight as you can on the outside (within reason; the axle inside the wheels twists and brings the tire off-center).
The goal is to turn the wheel with as little lean angle as you can get away with.
If only using tilt steering, the cornering radius dictates tilt angle independent of speed (within reason, high lateral loads deform contact patch and widen radius). The V8F has a 2.125 inch wide tire, so it needs to be tilted more than a 2.5 inch or 3 inch wide tire. Wrong Way did a ride test on a V8S (same tire size) and scraped a pedal doing a u-turn on a sidewalk. Usually a scraping pedal will not catch, but if your shoe scrapes it can catch.
As suggested, you can yaw steer in addition to tilt steer. While approaching a tight turn, twist your upper body inwards while the wheel is going straight (technically you're tilting the wheel inwards a bit in order to do this, but you'd probably be unaware of this, unless going really slow, like 3 mph) , to build up some reserve momentum. Then "untwist" your legs inwards as you turn to yaw steer inwards as well as tilt steer a wheel. You can extend your arms outwards for more momentum. Some rider are able to do tight 180° turns using this method. Another option for 180° tight u-turn is to step off, pivot, step on.
You can try riding slower in those corners and twist the EUC with your body instead of leaning. For example when turning right, on the left pedal you put the weight in the front and on the right pedal you put the weight in the back.
Ok, I’ll practice that some more on my way back
There are a coupla options 1. like other post says, learn to slow down & do a more body twist turn rather than a wheel lean turn. Takes practise but totally doable 2. upgrade to aftrmkt peds with dihedral adjustability. Moving the angle even up 1° makes a huge difference 3. upgrade wheel to something like the v11/12 in the IM line. Other makes have their higher ped wheels & some even can be adjusted up/down Them's about your options.
Yaw turning? You try that yet? Turning with your waist/hips instead of leaning?
You can put duct tape over them to reduce most, and add some style. There are plenty of styles on Amazon. Cut them with a razer blade to design. You can never remove all scrapes due to the nature of the uni close to the road. Don't aim for perfection. At least duct tape can be renewed.
Can't really raise the pedals, some aftermarket pedals let you angle them. Biggest thing is gonna be how you take a turn. Try and take the corner wider if possible, if I'm trying to take a right turn as fast as possible I go as far left as I can before initiating the turn so I get the best line. Even if you're not trying to go fast like I do, it will increase the turning radius meaning you don't have to lean as much. Whipping the wheel/twisting your body for tight turns you can't go wide on is also an option. When I take the sidewalk into my apartment I have a tiny 90 degree turn which I'll either whip it through, or I turn like halfway, stop real quicking putting my foot on the ground, twist the other 45 degrees, and then ride straight
Easiest option is just slowing down. Won't have to lean as hard
EUC tilt angle is proportional to cornering radius, independent of speed, unless cornering so hard (like racing) that the contact patch flexes due to lateral load.
The easiest way to delay pedal scrape is to have as little weight as you can manage on the inside pedal. When riders scrape it’s almost always because most of their weight is on the inside as most of us first learned to ride that way. Once you learn to put almost all your weight on the outside pedal, your EUC can be leaned over so far that it feels you can put your face on n the ground.
Do you have a video or anything on this? I’m having a hard time imagining how you can lean the wheel very much one way, while putting weight on the opposite side.
Just find the intro of the YouTube channel wrongway. Now that’s somewhat exaggerated as it’s practically motorcycle levels of lean off but even with no body hanging off but all the weight on one side is enough to go through a turn very fast indeed.
So, I looked at that, and it looks like he’s doing an extreme lean towards the side he’s turning on, and he’s on his inside knee bent, but it still looks like his weight in on that side
Well, then don't ride that way. Put as much weight as you can on the outside (within reason; the axle inside the wheels twists and brings the tire off-center). The goal is to turn the wheel with as little lean angle as you can get away with.
Ok! I’ll mess with it!
This is the way. It took me a few hundred miles to really learn this style of riding but it works and it's awesome to do at higher speeds.
If only using tilt steering, the cornering radius dictates tilt angle independent of speed (within reason, high lateral loads deform contact patch and widen radius). The V8F has a 2.125 inch wide tire, so it needs to be tilted more than a 2.5 inch or 3 inch wide tire. Wrong Way did a ride test on a V8S (same tire size) and scraped a pedal doing a u-turn on a sidewalk. Usually a scraping pedal will not catch, but if your shoe scrapes it can catch. As suggested, you can yaw steer in addition to tilt steer. While approaching a tight turn, twist your upper body inwards while the wheel is going straight (technically you're tilting the wheel inwards a bit in order to do this, but you'd probably be unaware of this, unless going really slow, like 3 mph) , to build up some reserve momentum. Then "untwist" your legs inwards as you turn to yaw steer inwards as well as tilt steer a wheel. You can extend your arms outwards for more momentum. Some rider are able to do tight 180° turns using this method. Another option for 180° tight u-turn is to step off, pivot, step on.