Hi folks, Just wondering if anyone has any experience of any non-genuine crash bars? I've been looking at the Givi ones, which are a reasonable price, but the way they mount at the top looks a bit flimsy to me. Anyone with any experience of those? Thanks!
Don’t know about others. Use original and after an have to say they did their job. Only problem is they are a ted too close to bodywork and since the aluminum panels vibrate a bit they touch the crash bars and get marked. Usedspacers ti increase the gap.
In GS circles I know folks who bought cheaper bars, which bent and actually increased the problems after a fall. Generally the known brands (OEM, Givi, SW Motech, Touratech) tend to invest well in their products, especially those with a German TuV mark seem worth having. The eBay specials should be considered decorative only. My buddy bought some Heed bars from eBay (they're Czech or something like that, from memory), and I was considering the same but they didn't stay nice looking for long (corrosion) and crumpled after a fall.
Am tempted with the Givi ones - they look like quite a nice design, and they come in black, which would complement the rest of the bike!
Well I took a tumble from standstill fully fueled with panniers loaded with 40 kilos, a soft roll bag at passenger seat and a tank bag full of things. Down she went. Didn’t even break the front indicator and no damage anywhere. So original for me.
Did a thread on here some time ago. I fitted new Givi bars.The bottom cross bars fouls the rear mudguard section on big bumps. Damaged my radiator. Sent many emails to Givi who are not very forthcoming. Their final answer was not to refit the rear part of mudguard. The bike was a 2017 1200s. Will try & find thread as it has pictures. I still have the bars on but with no lower cross tube, so not as strong as they should be.
I looked at those on their website, and saw on the instructions that it says about removing the lower part of the mudguard. Seems like they didn't do an especially good job of developing that. I think on the basis of your issues I'll avoid. Thanks for the warning!
Yes Givi got something very wrong designing them. Even the instructions showed a big hoop in the tube to miss the mudguard ,but the ones supplied was just a small kink. They said it was correct. I gave up with them after a while as they were becoming very rude in replies to me.
Only bought them as the price was good & they seemed ok in pictures. Best of luck in your search. Sure there will be someone along shortly to advise you. Cheers.
My OE ones took a standstill tumble and apart from a £23 hand guard part and a few minor scratches on the engine bars/pannier rail and rear footpeg, all was good. They do slightly mark the side panels as they are a bit too close, but I'm not planning on removing them, so no biggie?
Has anyone tried the SW Motech bars? They seem well made, and are German, so I feel a sense that they might be nicely engineered too.
There is a touratech kit with spacers to solve this problem. I put on some washers at the crossbar and where they screw on the engine. It gave me another half centimeter of space and put some pads where there may be fouling the bodywork
