Ground Clearance

[Afren]

Love my Supercharger GX especially the Bosch Performance CX motor, its twin batteries and the looks but don't care much for its lack of ground clearance.

 

[LimboJim]

Love my Supercharger GX especially the Bosch Performance CX motor, its twin batteries and the looks but don't care much for its lack of ground clearance.

Sounds like you're riding a "touring" hybrid on technical trails - it's not designed for that. Still, you could try shorter crank arms - stocked with 170s, try 160s.

 

[Afren]

No technical trails but when you forget to stop pedaling around a sharp corner and not maintaining a 12 and 6 o'clock positions. If you change the crank arms, you would also need to update the software accordingly involving a trip to your nearest dealer which in my case is 250 miles away. Also, shorter cranks don't always suit everyone including me.

 

[Alaskan]

After several pedal strikes with both my 2018 and 2019 Homages, I have learned not to pedal through the turns and always keep the foot/pedal on the outside of the turn at 6 o'clock. The full suspension can be partly to blame for this. Be sure you have no more than 20% sag on your suspension.

 

[Deleted member 18083]

When my Homage was shod with Schwalbe Marathon Plus MTBs (57-584) and with Pedaling Innovations Catalyst pedals I had far too many pedal strikes.

For the last few months I've been riding the stock Rock Razors (60–584) and conventional MTB pedals – fewer strikes.

 

[webcurl]

Isn't this cycling 101? Motorcycles have zero?