Crash Bars Half Price

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The Motech site says I think that the bars have been tested to TUV standards which in my book goes along way.
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I believe the TUV standards just judge if the item is safe for fitting to a bike, ie that it's attached securely and doesn't stick out too far, have sharp edges, contain bits that will cause danger to user or others.....nothing to do with how much protection they offer the bike itself.

AFAIK there aren't any 'standard tests' for dropping bikes and protection offered....it's up to each person to decide what level of protection and to which part of the bike they want it for and choose the bars accordingly.


FWIW I'd also have doubts about the areas these bars cover.....Personally I'd rather have a strong bar running horizontally level with or just above the bottom of the pot and outside of it...these ones have the bar ABOVE the pot and it looks like thay'd allow the bottom of the head to get scraped away.

I may well be wrong though, not having examined them first hand ;)
 
Fanum said:
I may well be wrong though, not having examined them first hand ;)
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Just as well you said that :D

The bottom of the bar runs more-or-less level with the bottom of the casing. When my bike fell over, in *huge* gravel (3" sproules, for what it's worth), there was only a slight mark at the top of the casing..... and the thing virtually flipped over!

SW-Motech engine bars :thumb
 
Geordie Foote said:
Has anyone got a better link?

The link at the top of this thread did not work for me.

Geordie
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I am having the same problem with the link at the beginning of this post.
I have a question, are these as good as or better than the Hepco and
Becker bars ?

Thanks, Daithi. :thumb
 
Daithi said:
I am having the same problem with the link at the beginning of this post.
I have a question, are these as good as or better than the Hepco and
Becker bars ?

Thanks, Daithi. :thumb
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ditto, cos they do look good
 
i think pauls sold the business as a going concern he promised me some a few months ago but hes not answering emails, text or phone calls havent seen him for a few months but he had just started a new job
 
engine bars

ive tried every way,all failed are they made/sold by www.sw-motech if not any more ideas. :(
 
1200gs crash bars

Are stainless steel crash bars available? If not does anyone know why? Seems to me that something designed to hit the deck should not have to be repainted every time it happens.
 
Stainless Crash Bars

hopalong said:
Are stainless steel crash bars available? If not does anyone know why? Seems to me that something designed to hit the deck should not have to be repainted every time it happens.
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Bit of a coincidence there, I was looking for stailess bars and couldn't find
them. I thought it wouldn't be worth my time making them, it seems I've no
choice now. The design of the HB bars for the 1100 is the style I'm going to
try. I've the tubing shaped, just to weld on the tabs and make the spacers.
As for the why, cost has to be the issue, stainless has gotten very expensive
and most people will settle for shiny painted bars.
 
Let me know when you decide to make some for sale - I'm definitely interested. Thanks for your prompt reply. As for the cost I would have thought the price charged by HB etc. reflects labour, jig, distribution costs more than the higher material cost but I haven't costed making my own (yet!)
 
hopalong said:
Let me know when you decide to make some for sale - I'm definitely interested. Thanks for your prompt reply. As for the cost I would have thought the price charged by HB etc. reflects labour, jig, distribution costs more than the higher material cost but I haven't costed making my own (yet!)
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I was only guessing that if the cost of materials went up it would come
straight off the profit margin, thinking about it now I suppose like us, a
lot of others would pay an extra few quid for the stainless version.
Another upside of using stainless is a fast tig run and a polishing mop will
get them as good as new after most spills.
I'll have my set done before Christmas and post a pic.

Speaking of which:o
 
Wizard said:
Nadeem, the bars don't actually "attach" to the bash plate, they're mounted to the engine at the same points as the bash plate, with a steel bar running underneath the plate to provide the strength & spacing to the bars. The bash plate itself isn't really mechanically involved except as a washer on the mounting bolts.

As for the bars being in the wrong place, nope. Mine's been down on both sides (please don't ask!!) with no damage whatsoever to the bike. Maybe if you lifted it into the air upside down and dropped it so a head landed on a wall......

As I said, the only issue I have with them is the quality of the supplied bolts. And if you can't manage to replace them from the local fastening suppliers for well under a hundred quid, then I think there's something wrong........
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I can vouch for one of these incidents:thumb I was there I saw - They work!!!!:D :D :D
 
i like engine bars when you slide up a slip road at 60+mph after a Morrison lorry has a goat killing you:eek they look like this.
apart from new engine bars, and rubbing down a hand Gard that was all the damage.:D
 

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