I bent my GSA Crash Bars...

[WindyChuffer]

I need to get my GSA crash bars straightened. I came off in the rain a few weeks ago and the bike slid down the road on its LHS @ ~50mph. Its bent the Left crash bars a bit, so when you look at the bike from the front you can see that the left fog light is closer to the bike, and the right fog is further away from the bike.

So, any tips on where i can go to get them straightened? Buying replacements seems a bit OTT.

(LH Cylinder Head guard took the brunt of the slide - nice tarmac rash on it.)

Thx
Mike.

 

[Wapping]

Have a go at straightening them yourself.

Use a lever of some description, it probably will not need to be very long*, against a block of wood to spread the load.



* "Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough, I will move the world"

 

[Owen Snell]

Have a go at straightening them yourself.

Use a lever of some description, it probably will not need to be very long*, against a block of wood to spread the load...

Better off the bike, probably. Whatever you lever against might break, wood or not. The lever multiplies the force you exert on the pivot point as well as at the end of the bar.

Any fabricator should be able to sort it out if you don't want to have a go.

 

[GreatScott]

Sod the bike - are you OK? At least the bike will look the part for your trip next year. When are you off?

 

[Wapping]

Better off the bike, probably. Whatever you lever against might break, wood or not. The lever multiplies the force you exert on the pivot point as well as at the end of the bar.

Any fabricator should be able to sort it out if you don't want to have a go.

Indeed it does.

Depending on how bent they are, it may be easier to take them off. The downside is that you will have to keep putting them on / taking off until they line up straight.

I would have a go with a bit of gentle leverage first if they were not too far out.

Finding some from a breaker's, off a bike that has gone down on the other side, may well be easiest and cheapest over all.

 

[Wreford Miles]

Put a chain around it and attach to a post, then put the bike in reverse and give it some welly

 

[AdamA]

Put a chain around it and attach to a post, then put the bike in reverse and give it some welly

I didn't get the optional "enduro" which I assume has the reverse gear.
Can I drive the post forward instead?

 

[Wapping]

Can I drive the post forward instead?

Get a postman to help you.

 

[WindyChuffer]

Sod the bike - are you OK? At least the bike will look the part for your trip next year. When are you off?

Yeah - all fine. Just an innocuous gentle bend on a wet welsh country road in the dark. Was more scared seeing my mate's GSA sliding towards me. After all, its not the coming off that hurts, its what you hit (or what hits you)... Just as small bruise on the hips but thats it.

Crash bars are now offset, bent inward on the left, and outwards on the right.

Looks like I'm postponing the London-Beijng trip as I've got a sproglet arriving 3 days after I'm due to leave. Crap planning or what. Well, er, what planning ! Hey ho.

 

[Wapping]

How is the straightening going?

 

[Mikey]

What year is it? I've got an upper and light bar off an ADV which I bought from E bay and then found that in their wisdom BMW changed the design and so they won't fit my 09. They're for the earlier 05/07 models.

 

[WindyChuffer]

What year is it? I've got an upper and light bar off an ADV which I bought from E bay and then found that in their wisdom BMW changed the design and so they won't fit my 09. They're for the earlier 05/07 models.

Its an 08 build bike, so no good. Thx for the tip.

 

[WindyChuffer]

How is the straightening going?

Not started it yet. Busy week. Not helped by getting stranded at work in Reading last night due to snow and muppet drivers. Oh well, so glad I took the camper can to work as slept in that in the works car park...

 

[Wapping]

Not started it yet. Busy week. Not helped by getting stranded at work in Reading last night due to snow and muppet drivers. Oh well, so glad I took the camper can to work as slept in that in the works car park...

Quit the heroics, Captain Oates. It was a car park in Reading (in a campervan) not the Ketchum Glacier

.... How are you going to straighten the crash bars?