Frame sliders/engine guards

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I have SW Motech on mine. I dont know if the H&B bars have purpose specific long engine bolts included included or not. SWM includes the two long engine bolts that are designed to fail instead of breaking an engine mount, or bending a frame, if an impact severe enough to damage those components takes place. Quite a while back I did a lot of research on bars before I bought. At the time some members were using the stock Honda long bolts instead of the included SWM long bolts. Here is the thread, what I discovered, and torque values. http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8360

Among other pluses, the SWM have three points of contact with the bike. The supplied long bolts will absorb energy and fail if necessary. I have also seen pictures of these bars after a crash, whereby the flat pieces of steel that mount the front frame bolts and engine mount bolt, bent, but still protected the engine. Here again, energy absorbed and the flat steel bent before transferring enough energy to damage the frame and/or engine mount. Naturally we are talking worst case here, as much of the time the end result will probably be just a scraped up engine bar. I am certainly not throwing shade at any other bar brand or option, just explaining why I went with SWM.

Back in the day, I had case saver bars on my 1974 CB750 Four. The bike slid out from under me during a slow left turn from a stop at a stop light. The case savers were aftermarket, and bolted on at two points. The mount points were flat steel, and bent, but saved my engine case. Ever since then I have been a believer in engine guards.