Engine crash bars for a K100?

[Fanum]

Don't 'spose anyone's got any sitting around in an old box at the back of the shed? (or even knackered ones so I can fabricate some up with the pipe bender?)



After having thrown the bike up the road on sheet ice yesterday, I have an urge to get some

Ooooh I fuggin' ache today

The fibreglass fairing stood up to it a lot better than I was expecting TBH, but the left hand front indicator (actually a rear K bike one mounted facing forwards on the fairing) got smashed into a zillion pieces ....those are cheap from Mworks but the engine bars are the sort of thing I suspect there will be a load of sitting around, having been taken off the old Plod bricks

 

[MikeP]

If you have a chocolate fireguard, bolt that on instead, it will be as much use. Especially the ex-plod ones.

The engine bars might protect the cam and crankcase covers in the event of it toppling over at a standstill but they'll do nothing except more damage if the bike is moving forwards, even slowly.

The police version is even worse. Being that much wider they fold upwards slicing through the fairing. They were only any use for hanging the siren on.

The OE bars are mounted on rubber to avoid them ripping the sump or the front engine mountings out. Pointless exercise added only to pander to the Boxer owners who wouldn't be seen dead on a BMW without engine bars.

 

[Hman]

Don't 'spose anyone's got any sitting around in an old box at the back of the shed? (or even knackered ones so I can fabricate some up with the pipe bender?)



After having thrown the bike up the road on sheet ice yesterday, I have an urge to get some

Ooooh I fuggin' ache today

The fibreglass fairing stood up to it a lot better than I was expecting TBH, but the left hand front indicator (actually a rear K bike one mounted facing forwards on the fairing) got smashed into a zillion pieces ....those are cheap from Mworks but the engine bars are the sort of thing I suspect there will be a load of sitting around, having been taken off the old Plod bricks

if i remember rightly......... i had an early k100 1985 and the crash bars were pants. like you one early winter commute i went down on some ice the crash bars took took the lug of the cylinder head where its mounted. i ended up needing a new head and exhaust cam. on the later ones i think they had a rubber mounting.

Hman

 

[kloek]

Thanks

Ah well......at least the summer's nearly here now

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