
The guys at The Shadow Conspiracy hit us up with an exclusive first look at their new Plastic Peg that we spotted on their Instagram last week.
Seen here is the new S.O.D. “Slide or Die” Plastic Peg that they have coming out. They designed this peg with Scott Ditchburn who wanted a plastic/chromoly combo peg that wouldn’t rotate when grinding and didn’t have as large of an outside diameter as the pegs that we’re currently out. This is a big issue for many riders, as most current Plastic Pegs like the Animal Butchers are much fatter than your traditional 36mm Steel Peg.

Scott also wanted to keep it very light, similar to an aluminum version, so that there wouldn’t be an ample amount of weight added to your bike when you ran 3-4 pegs and spinning the bars would still feel good.

To shrink the size of the peg, they decided to use a butted heat treated chromoly core. This gave them the opportunity to shrink the internal core to a 31mm diameter. Due to it’s size, this creates a very light peg that obtains the durability and dent resistance of a standard heat treated chromoly peg. The plastic sleeve is made out of their already tried and proved Nylon/Fiberglass propitiatory compound and is 4mm thick so it offers more plastic than your typical plastic peg. This means that the overall peg diameter with the plastic sleeve is only 39mm. Just 1mm larger than your typical 38mm steel peg. This was one of the main points that Ditchburn wanted to touch on. There is also no issues fitting nuts and washers into the peg, which can be a real pain when you are travelling/taking your pegs off.

The second point that they wanted to touch on was the anti-rotational end on the peg and sleeve. Like many riders who ride plastic pegs, this is a problem that Ditchburn had been experiencing with numerous pegs. They came up with the cross end plug system so that the peg had no chance of rotating and allowed a flat chromoly to dropout interface. This means that no matter how much you grind through the sleeve, it wont twist apart from the chromoly peg like other pegs tend to do.

The prototype peg currently weighs 5.3 ounces and is 104mm long. Although this is still in the sample stages (hence the white sleeve), Scott and the rest of the team will be grinding the hell out of these to make sure they are 100% ready for whatever rail, ledge or edge you want to slap your pegs on. If his Subrosa video part is anything to go by, these things will be testing to destruction.
With the growing amount of brands releasing (or working on) plastic pegs, I’m pretty excited to see how this new S.O.D. Peg fairs and weather it will be a substantial improvement on what’s already out there. Be sure to follow Shadow on Instagram to see updates on this peg and and a sneak peek on all the other stuff they are working on this year.