Fastway 1 Million Dollar Footpeg ad

In my opinion these are the most uncomfortable footpegs I have ever ridden with. I hate the feeling of losing that movement and feeling like I’m stuck. 

On the flip side, I know plenty of dudes that love them and swear they will never ride a bike without them. 
 

As far as the marketing side, I don’t think it’s necessarily all that bad, but I also don’t think it’s all that tasteful either.

Kind of bad taste. Nobody knows if their pegs would have helped, and they admit so themselves. It seems like profiteering off of a champion's misfortune to me. 

Agreed.

I saw the ad too and I thought it was pretty tasteless. Not a bad idea to boost promotion of them but I feel like they could have picked a better way to do it. 

To be fair, the notion was thrown around on this very board by a few people and I bet they've heard it a bunch, given they are the people who make these things.

Seems like a bold move though, as a company, to go ahead and pick up the baton and run with it...

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there's no malice in there. I can totally see how it will rub some folks up the wrong way though.

I don't see a problem with it.   Truth hurts....and a lot of people cant take the truth these days.

Piss poor taste.

I have them on both my bikes, I think their great, cant help but think they could have prevented this injury?

What have you got that proves these pegs would have indefinitely saved Tomac from injury?

I mean, they probably would have saved his Achilles 

His foot would not have bent backwards , no injury with no stretching of the ligament 

Yup.

Not to mention Tomac removed the safety feature from his boots that helps prevent this.  I'm a fan of Tomac, but that seems stupid to me without another stop gap. 

I think just doing an email blast showing/reminding everyone of these footpegs would’ve worked just as well, if not better. No need to drag Eli and his injury into it, everyone in their target demographic already knows what happened.

True, but force is force and has to go somewhere...so in theory it may have saved his Achilles, but something else has to give, right?

I know that's over-simplifying it, but still. 

As for the ad, I've seen better and I've seen worse. Better than some other current advertising campaigns 🤐

Force is force, but the achilles is a very vulnerable but vital link in our anatomy. I think there's even a term for that sort of thing.

Did Kooksey write that ad for them.....

I love it! 

if your offended I’m sorry I thought motocrosser where more tough 

Mumford is currently running them after his calf muscle injury!

So these pegs would have prevented the injury how?

By angling upwards just like Eli's foot did that caused the injury?

I don't believe they would have done jack shit in this situation.

They limit ankle dorsiflexion to about 15 degrees when riding with balls of feet on pegs

https://www.vitalmx.com/product/feature/Reviewed-Ankle-Savers-by-Moto-I…

How dare you pollute this thread with facts!

Ooohhhhh I see...from the part at the back on the heel.

Cheers that pic makes sense.

I retract my "jack shit" statement.

But would he have won all the races this season with those?
What if they limited his ability to move around causing him to not be as fast and not win as much.  
 

Then they wouldn’t have helped him win 1 million dollars but actually cost him 1 million dollars. 

 

The only time you would be dealing with a level of flexion that they would be in your range of motion should be on a hard case out.

Would you market a neck brace the same way if someone was paralyzed in an accident?

Eli's injury could be career ending. I think it's in bad taste. Not as bad as the above example, but a wee bit over the line.

If somebody took a rock to the hand and broke a bunch of fingers that lost them a championship. But the prognosis was for a full recovery. I'd totally run a hand guard ad like this.

Fastway should consider taking the design to it's logical conclusion & incorporate adjustable tension on that the rear portion, would add a bit of weight & complexity, but a pivot point & a stiff-enough spring seems almost self evident.    

No brainer!!  Marketing department would be remiss NOT to capitalize on this. Any publicity is good publicity. Poor taste or not they are in biz to sell footpegs designed to reduce Achilles injuries. Somebody even made a thread on Vital to talk about it……again 

Your over thinking it. “Rube Goldberg”

I have to agree that ad was in poor taste, that being said I run these pegs and love them.  I use to have the standard Evo Airs, which were the best pegs I've had and then gave these EXT's a try.  For younger riders, maybe the ankle saver option might not look cool and be a waste of time, but for us older dudes I like the added protection and I don't even notice that extention back there.  I guess in a way they look like training wheels for Motocross pegs, but if it keeps me from rupturing my achilles tendon then I'm all in.  I look at it this way, anything that can keep me on a bike the older I get is worth it and I'm willing to evolve as technology evolves to prevent injuries, because let's face it, Motocross and Offroad is extremely dangerous and physically demanding.  Would a peg like this prevented Eli Tomac's rupture Achilles tendon that cost him a Supercross championship, Don't know, but if it would have I bet he'd be running them all the time. 

Nothing wrong with the Ad.

Company sucks tho, I spent a lot of money with Fastway/PMB over the years and the whole linkage guard bait and switch they pulled on me and some others a few years ago lost a lot of my respect.