How many ride without the crash bar?
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01-04-2010, 04:48 PM
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1st off .... If you can't take a corner without 'draging your engine guard' ... I'm think'n the engine guard is not what is dangerous. I can see scraping your foot peg first .. you'd have to be into a reallly aggressive lean to scrape the engine guard.
2nd ly ... If you ever do lay down your bike while travelling down the road .. THAT engine guard may very well save your engine, tank, fender etc from getting REALLY beat up ... not to mention your own skin. It's designed to hold the bike up a bit so any thing underneath it won't get damaged.
I wiped out on a bike once ... Had I not had an engine guard ... Well I can only imagine what would have happened to my leg because I pretty much road out the skid with my leg trapped underneath it.
THAT engine guard saved my leg ... not to mention the bike itself!
2nd ly ... If you ever do lay down your bike while travelling down the road .. THAT engine guard may very well save your engine, tank, fender etc from getting REALLY beat up ... not to mention your own skin. It's designed to hold the bike up a bit so any thing underneath it won't get damaged.
I wiped out on a bike once ... Had I not had an engine guard ... Well I can only imagine what would have happened to my leg because I pretty much road out the skid with my leg trapped underneath it.
THAT engine guard saved my leg ... not to mention the bike itself!
You really want to take the guards off because they scrape??
Whatever floats your boat.
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01-04-2010, 05:37 PM
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Here's a pic from one of the crashes in the Motorcyclist article. This guy was fine as he scraped his floorboard, then his engine guard caught, his tires were lifted off the ground and he was history.
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01-04-2010, 05:41 PM
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You can hit an engine guard (crash bar) before your floor boards depending on the camber and grade of the apex of your turn. There was a great article in Motorcyclist magazine a couple years ago where they took action photos of people crashing in turns while riding the Dragon in order to show what people did wrong to cause the crash. Many of those crashes showed people dragging their crash bars and lifting the rear tire...
This is the TOURING section of the forum. It's for folks that ride TOURING bikes. If you're leaning one of these things far enough to scrape the crash bar, most likely you were already done anyway. If I rode a crotch rocket, then no, I most likely wouldn't have a large chrome bar around my engine. I don't, so I do!
Ride S-A-F-E!!! (Don't lean far enough over to scrape your crash bar!)