TTech Crashbars

[Stoney]

Has anyone fitted these? They are £80 more than the H&B but sound as though they may be more chip resistent and seem to offer fairly good protection.

Any feedback?

http://www.touratech.de/shop_uk/en-us/dept_541.html

 

[Rod]

They are not available yet. I phoned the UK distributor yesterday & he told me maybe end of this month.
They do look good don't they.

 

[Stoney]

Made of anti-rust stainless steel no less. The same cannot be said of my 6 month old H&B bars on the 1150 - chipped to pieces!

Maybe I can put the unavailability of these down to the reason everyone has H&Bs!?

 

[laughingBob]

Mine have been on order since the end of October. I was told they would in by middle to end of Jan. I like the idea of stainless steel rather than paint. I asked them if they were mounted on the rear engine mount, like the H&B ones are but, they didn't know. Does any one know, as from the pictures I can't tell.

 

[Stoney]

They look like they are but please let us know what they are like when/if they arrive - it is TTech after all. Saying that I heard Nick might be back at work sooner than planned

 

[TerryM]

Mine have been on order since the end of October. I was told they would in by middle to end of Jan. I like the idea of stainless steel rather than paint. I asked them if they were mounted on the rear engine mount, like the H&B ones are but, they didn't know. Does any one know, as from the pictures I can't tell.

In your picture I see three (M10?)set screws with what look like allen cap heads going through a plate into the crankcase to which the bars are welded. Welds in shear.

To mount off the rear subframe engine mount a sort of tubular tee structure, at right angles to the fore and aft axis of the bike, set into the frame strut and then bolted to the crankcase is necessary.

Otherwise the weld is in shear rather than compression when you drop it, and they, the welds, are not designed to do that.

Take a look at the actual OE BM bar fixing, not the brochure picture which seems just a publicity pic from another bike or some such .

Incidentally, I had thought the OE bars on my bike to be heavily plated matt finish steel, but your comment about stainless prompted me to check with a magnet, and they are only slightly magnetic, compared to the frame which is strongly magnetic. So they could be stainless or a high spec steel alloy which has low magnetic properties.