Check this out - Fairing Protection

**justsomeguy** · 30th June 2005, 10:11

Came accross this looking for bike pics....are these available here??

Look more useful than crash bungs and will probably pay for themselves in the first crash......

http://l934.myspace.com/00121/43/96/121036934_l.jpg

**duckman** · 30th June 2005, 10:15

Looks like great crash protection .... but godamm their ugly !!

**zadok** · 30th June 2005, 10:17

Originally Posted by duckman

Looks like great crash protection .... but godamm their ugly !!

Ditto. I can't see them being popular.

**justsomeguy** · 30th June 2005, 10:18

Originally Posted by duckman

Looks like great crash protection .... but godamm their ugly !!

I'd still want one.

**bugjuice** · 30th June 2005, 10:20

there are some kits in the US for them, and a few around Europe too, but most are custom jobbies. Tisn't hard. But man, it's fugly.
Just get some tubing bent outta shape, find the best mounting points on the frame, and weld it all up. sorted. Really detracts from the shape and look of the bike. Might as well just take the farings off

**JohnBoy** · 30th June 2005, 10:27

the idea is good, but the look like they are just a bastardised engine covers off a beemer. hate to see what would happen if you came off at high speeds, wouldn't like to get tangled up in them as you exit the bike!

**Mr Skid** · 30th June 2005, 10:37

Stunters tend to use these, as they expect to drop their bikes quite regularly, but for a road bike they seem pointless.

Isn't the idea of having expensive bits of plastic bolted to the side of your bike to make it look pretty and go faster?
I'd imagine crash bars on a sprotsbike would make it look uglier and go slower.

They're reasonably popular on adventure bikes- The BMW GSA's come with them factory, and chek out advrider.com for peeps fitting them to all manner of adv bikes KTM 950's, 640 adv's, KLR's, NX's etc.

But then again, adv riders are more likely to drop their bikes at low speed and tend to be biased towards function over form.

**Ixion** · 30th June 2005, 10:51

Isn't the rear bend, where it bolts to the frame just forrard of the seat, going to get majorily in the way of your leg?

**v.ros`** · 30th June 2005, 11:09

I actually wouldnt mind putting on a black or even a chrome one...

Found out the price before i got my crash knobs and they are around 250 USD on ebay plus prolly 50 US for shipping to tiny NZ..

So guess they could be worth if you really inot wheelies and other stunts..

**Artifice** · 30th June 2005, 11:23

Originally Posted by Mr Skid

Isn't the idea of having expensive bits of plastic bolted to the side of your bike to make it look pretty and go faster?

plastic fairings are there to protect your expensive parts from damage in a crash. expensive being engine and frame. of course then people started putting on crash bungs to protect the paintjob on the plastic. Does anybody know where i can get protectors for crash bungs?

**bugjuice** · 30th June 2005, 11:28

Originally Posted by Artifice

plastic fairings are there to protect your expensive parts from damage in a crash. expensive being engine and frame. of course then people started putting on crash bungs to protect the paintjob on the plastic. Does anybody know where i can get protectors for crash bungs?

you can, there's some here...

**Mr Skid** · 30th June 2005, 11:38

Originally Posted by Artifice

plastic fairings are there to protect your expensive parts from damage in a crash. expensive being engine and frame.

Fairings designed to protect the engine and frame?

**Artifice** · 30th June 2005, 11:45

ok ok, i not really honest. back in the days of yeor when motocicles was tryin to go fasternstuff. they put these new fangled fairings on bikes to cut the wind away from the nastyframework and rider.

of course it always costs a tonne to repair em. hey i was looking for protectors to protect crash bungs. you know like maybe those trainer wheels they put on kiddies bikes so theyl nevah learn to ride propah.

**justsomeguy** · 30th June 2005, 17:30

Originally Posted by Artifice

ok ok, i not really honest. back in the days of yeor when motocicles was tryin to go fasternstuff. they put these new fangled fairings on bikes to cut the wind away from the nastyframework and rider.

of course it always costs a tonne to repair em. hey i was looking for protectors to protect crash bungs. you know like maybe those trainer wheels they put on kiddies bikes so theyl nevah learn to ride propah.

You talk like a guy who is either too rich to care or who has never had to pay for expensive fairing repairs......

**NhuanH** · 30th June 2005, 17:39

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

Came accross this looking for bike pics....are these available here??

Look more useful than crash bungs and will probably pay for themselves in the first crash......

[Cartman]:
"whoa, that shit is GHEY duude!"

[Nhuan]
Hell, why stop there? Just wrap ya whole damn motobicycle in bubble wrap! I

the popping noises

I like the idea of bungs for your crash bungs though