Re: [St] Crash protectors

[brettwilson21@xxxxxxx]

Ahhh this old chestnut again...

To put it into a nut shell, crash protectors will do some good in a low speed crash, such as a drop in the driveway or a low speed slide, etc. The sort of thing that will see an insurance quote run to a few grand without them if you were to replace everything damaged with new.

Anything more violent and they can indeed do deeper damage?often at the points where they are mounted. More than one bike has been written off as soon at that bit of damage is discovered.?

I look at it like most protection systems - they do their job quite well up to a point. Once the point of failure is reached the results can often be catastrophic and in some cases the protection system can do more harm than good. Examples are the human ribcage, the steel box known as motor vehicles, steel capped boots.




I guess you decide which is more important to you and decide from there.

Brett.




-----Original Message-----
From: steve scilley <steve.scilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 7:05 pm
Subject: [St] Crash protectors



Hi all, 
Thought I'd share a little experience regarding the R&G crash protectors I'd 
fitted to my Sprint. 
After a low speed bump on Wed.(the man in the van admitted liability)  I threw 
my bike up the road. the crash protector did more damage than it saved. 
To fit it, you remove the top torx bolt from the engine mounting, fit the bolt 
from the back, throw away the nut and, and the crash 'enhancer' is fitted to the 
end of the bolt in place of the nut. Clear so far? 
The damn thing bent the bolt which in turn cracked the mounting bracket and now 
I have to drop the engine out to get the bracket welded. Oh! and the fairing's 
bolloxed anyway! so it didn't help at all.
I had to suffer the indignity of going to the NW200 on my wife's Bandit!!
If you've got them fitted my advice is to throw them away.
Steve
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