06-08-2014, 02:55 PM
I had crash bars almost crash me 40 years ago, but for a different reason. On my Honda CB350 I had crash bars that had foot pegs inside of them that let me put my foot forward like a cruiser. So one day I popped over a hill doing 50+ and there sat a car dead stopped making a left hand turn. First I locked up both front and rear brakes, but I could tell that wasn’t going to work, so at the last moment I let off the brakes and tried to turn to the right. I thought for sure my left leg was going to hit the bumper of that car, but it barely missed. However the crash bars did hit the bumper (that’s how close this was). Luckily for me, the welds on the brackets at the bottom of the crash bars failed so the crash bars were just hanging on by the U-Bolt at the top. I took those crash bars off after that and figured if I ever had to lay the bike down, I’d just get my bottom leg out like a hurdler ;-)