Or the bar disforms a lot and crushes your leg like the old KZ1000 police crash bars were known for. In a collision, the front bar would fold in half and pin the riders leg to the brake pedal, at the same time the rider is being thrown from the motorcycle, causing major structural damage to the leg. Fortunately, both guys I know retained their legs after years of surgeries. I'm sure the engineers would have selected the bi-mount system for weight savings if it was as safe as the trimount system, but they also had to consider how these bikes were going to be used in the LE profession. If that additional force is being transferred to the frame, I welcome it. We use to think cars built in the 60's were safer because of the amount of steel used in them until we discovered energy dissipating crumple zone technology. I believe the bi-mount system was strictly designed, as ST1300biker refers to in his post, for slow speed drops and maintaining the rear seat passenger foot pegs for civilian operated motorcycles. Calling them highway bars instead of crash bars is just typical lawyer-ease in America, like calling "non-lethal weapons" "less than lethal" after a person died from being hit with a bean bag or a person dying from a taser.
Obviously. With faster speeds the bike is more likely to flip or tumble with the rider departing the bike. The bars are intended IMO for low speed use anyway and my comment about being designed for a 900 lbs bike is to blunt comments about their strength for intended use vs "stronger" solid steel fabrications.
It’s also one of the things that separate us from the lower animals.
..."catch me if you can".
No way that was really a thing? How could anyone take that seriously? Must be from a Monty Python skit.
No way that was really a thing? How could anyone take that seriously? Must be from a Monty Python skit.
"Yes, I do know that, and don't call me Shirley!"
It is funny how the UK police paint all of their vehicles with high visibility blue and yellow colors and the US paints all their vehicles with subdued colors like black and white. There is a reason for the black and white and it dates back to the early days of Henry Ford. He once said a customer could purchase his first cars in any color as long as it was black. They started painting police cars black and white because it was easy for people to distinguish them from all the other cars on the road. This still plays out today as many of the cars on the road are painted solid colors like black, white, silver, red, blue, etc. The two tone paint is very easy to see from the ground but even easier to identify from the air. Airborne law enforcement relies on being able to quickly identify the police cars to direct them to locations. Maybe if we have any UK LE's on this forum, they can let us know. Being they are all painted the same, I have a feeling they might be mandated by law. If that was the case in the US, it sure would be easier to know when a state trooper was behind us.
No way that was really a thing? How could anyone take that seriously? Must be from a Monty Python skit.
Thanks everyone for the information provided to my inquiry about saddlebag protectors. I finally go a set and will be installing them Thursday, 17 Dec
