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Originally Posted by Warthog
My take on it is this:
As far as protecting the bike, if either of these were to slip on gravel even at a standstill, I'd guess that, without the boxer engine to keep the bike off the ground, the DL could come off a lot worse, in terms of plastics etc, and plastics are the bane of a biker's bank account.
I have embarassingly dropped a number of bike at a standstill, GS included, and it was barely noticeably on the cylinder head. Where my numerous poor Hondas and a mint Kawasaki suffered for my clumsiness...
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You know, I was just thinking about this the other day. Where can one buy the old style full wrap around crash bars like we used to have on most bikes in the 70s. I had them on my little Chinese 125 two years ago and they cost me less than $5 - including fitting!
True, they don't look cool but they are absolutely necessary once you take a plastic faired road bike onto gravel
I'm determined to get a proper set to fit my my next offroader - in the meantime I may even dril a few holes in the bodywork of my Burgman to make some fit ready for my next ride up to Birdsville..
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