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[SixPackBack]

I'll make my own like I did on my motard

All ya need is a block of nylon and a chisel

no dude acetal, available from engineering plastics

[Coyote]

no dude acetal, available from engineering plastics

Sweet. Give it a go at metalwork

I was also thinking of making kevlar patches to go on parts of the bike i.e tank. Supposedly you work with it in the same way as fibreglass

[John]

Dont do it, they cause more damage than they are worth 80% of the time on the road.

Best way to protect your bike? Get riding lessons. Sorry to be blunt but its the truth, I have seen some horiffic damage from knobs, If you are going to install them make sure they are as small as you possibly can get them, that way they wont have as much leverage to bend/break engine mounts on our little bikes.

[Two Smoker]

Dont do it, they cause more damage than they are worth 80% of the time on the road.

Best way to protect your bike? Get riding lessons. Sorry to be blunt but its the truth, I have seen some horiffic damage from knobs, If you are going to install them make sure they are as small as you possibly can get them, that way they wont have as much leverage to bend/break engine mounts on our little bikes.

If you get RG racing ones, they are designed to pivot on the aluminium which means it wont bend your frame, and being compact they wont rip the thread from the engine mounts either... As you have probably read, i know how to ride a bike, but im happy to be saving over a grand on a side fairing due to a $200 crash knob... its the $$$ that you spend that decides the fate of the serverity of the damage from a crash...

[John]

If you get RG racing ones, they are designed to pivot on the aluminium which means it wont bend your frame, and being compact they wont rip the thread from the engine mounts either... As you have probably read, i know how to ride a bike, but im happy to be saving over a grand on a side fairing due to a $200 crash knob... its the $$$ that you spend that decides the fate of the serverity of the damage from a crash...

Depends what your riding on but - in respect to surface and terrian, I am sure your aware of shortfalls of crash bungs, so I wont preach on it - But I will tell you for free our engine mounts (the zxr's) break easy under stress.

[Two Smoker]

Depends what your riding on but - in respect to surface and terrian, I am sure your aware of shortfalls of crash bungs, so I wont preach on it - But I will tell you for free our engine mounts (the zxr's) break easy under stress.

Yep, seen Milky's break without a crash knob...

[Grumpy]

Check out MotovationUSA. I got a set for the Z1000. $150 including freight from the States. Excellent quality.

[TDC]

Like me everybody has an idea about these sort of things, but for what its worth here is my nickel worth of advise.

Crash bungs / ogie bars / whatever the cool current branding is, tend to bolt to solid unmovable and also expensive bits in the bike. If the bike just goes for a slide down a very smooth road they can in some instances limit some damage. However if the bike slides over a kerb, the crash device gets caught in a pot hole, or just gets hooked up on some road irregularity, it is very likely that the unmovable / expensive bit will be damaged. (read engine, frame, etc)

Bike wreckers like crash bungs as more often than the proponents of such devices will admit, they are the cause of more damage not less, worst the damage they cause tends to be very expensive and difficult to repair.

All crashes cause damage, plastics are cheaper than frames / engine cases ....

Fully expecting to get flamed by cool crash bung fashion victims

[John]

Like me everybody has an idea about these sort of things, but for what its worth here is my nickel worth of advise.

Crash bungs / ogie bars / whatever the cool current branding is, tend to bolt to solid unmovable and also expensive bits in the bike. If the bike just goes for a slide down a very smooth road they can in some instances limit some damage. However if the bike slides over a kerb, the crash device gets caught in a pot hole, or just gets hooked up on some road irregularity, it is very likely that the unmovable / expensive bit will be damaged. (read engine, frame, etc)

Bike wreckers like crash bungs as more often than the proponents of such devices will admit, they are the cause of more damage not less, worst the damage they cause tends to be very expensive and difficult to repair.

All crashes cause damage, plastics are cheaper than frames / engine cases ....

Fully expecting to get flamed by cool crash bung fashion victims

Well said that man.

edit: Welcome to the site, best first post ever

[Coyote]

Dont do it, they cause more damage than they are worth 80% of the time on the road.

Best way to protect your bike? Get riding lessons. Sorry to be blunt but its the truth, I have seen some horiffic damage from knobs, If you are going to install them make sure they are as small as you possibly can get them, that way they wont have as much leverage to bend/break engine mounts on our little bikes.

This is why I still haven't done anything to my cbr yet, can't see any good places to have crash bungs. I was thinking of welding skid plates on my crankcase sidecovers, also be another line of defence from being split open again

[NordieBoy]

Crash bungs on front and rear axles.
No way I'd be without them really.
Basically they are cheap lowside insurance.
If I can spend $20 on some crash protection to save my forks/swingarm etc from being gound up then I'll do it.
They only have to work once to save many many times their cost.



Oh and if you're making your own then you should be looking for Nolethane (sp?) the stuff they make suspension bushes from for cages.