Case & or crash guard's B1200. Any input

[Daytona]

Any comments? Let it rip i can take it!!! I heard some neg things about the suzuki guard so i made my own!!    
Bigger pic! Got dial up!
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[Red01]

Can't comment since I can't see the pics... I don't have an AOL userid.

[99er]

Saw them at MSN. Ree-bar is as versatile as duct tape. Nice job!
Marc/Atl

[Red01]

May not be the prettiest ones I've ever seen, but they look like they ought to be up to the task!  

[jwalters]

I think they blend in well!  Nice work.    
jesse

[GETFURIOUS]

NICE IDEA, BUT MAYBE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, IF THEY WERE MADE OF A SMOOTHER METAL.  

AGAIN, IT IS A GREAT IDEA.

[tacoman]

Clever, I would have never thought to use rebar.  Very industrial looking.  Your motor looks well protected.

[Stevie B]

THE GOOD:  Great that you made your own, looks like they must have cost loads less than Suzuki items, good on you for the savings.  I am sure they provide protection, side covers are not cheap.

THE BAD:  Appears you have use donly one attachment point.  Suzuki bars use three, one on frame, one on motor, one motormounts, which brings me to...

THE UGLY:   I may be in the minority, here, but I think the rebar is ugly.  And if you wanna talk really ugly, as in pain in the ass, try installing the Suzuki bars on a 98 B-12.  The afore mentioned motor mounts have bolts that are easy enough to get to, but nuts on back of them are shrouded about 75%, so it is impossible to get anything other than vice grip pliars to hold them, which necessitates removal of engine cradle and pipes.  Mine are on, though, after a low-speed crash that none the less cracked a side cover.  The bitch of the thing is I had them before that crash, but the pain in the ass mount held me back.  

MORE UGLY:  I am trying to find black highway pegs to mount, for an upcoming 2-week trip from Atlanta to New York, with my son riding along on a Vulcan 800 classic.

[Daytona]

THE GOOD:  Great that you made your own, looks like they must have cost loads less than Suzuki items, good on you for the savings.  I am sure they provide protection, side covers are not cheap.

THE BAD:  Appears you have use donly one attachment point.  Suzuki bars use three, one on frame, one on motor, one motormounts, which brings me to...

THE UGLY:   I may be in the minority, here, but I think the rebar is ugly.  And if you wanna talk really ugly, as in pain in the ass, try installing the Suzuki bars on a 98 B-12.  The afore mentioned motor mounts have bolts that are easy enough to get to, but nuts on back of them are shrouded about 75%, so it is impossible to get anything other than vice grip pliars to hold them, which necessitates removal of engine cradle and pipes.  Mine are on, though, after a low-speed crash that none the less cracked a side cover.  The bitch of the thing is I had them before that crash, but the pain in the ass mount held me back.  

MORE UGLY:  I am trying to find black highway pegs to mount, for an upcoming 2-week trip from Atlanta to New York, with my son riding along on a Vulcan 800 classic.

  Hey thanks for the comment, thrash me and throw me under the bus again "B".   They cost me zip to make! These are attached to the lower Euro motor mount tab on the eng case, also what you cant see @ the front is a rubber padded bar that runs the length of the frame area where the front eng mounts are. I can install these (both) in 15 min. What they are made from is no biggie. Tubing is harder to bend and weld but much lighter of course. If anyone thinks these (Or any) will do anything but be another piece of bent junk in a serious crash   They are very functional for the tip over @ slippery gas stations, the old i thought i had the side stand down trick, The Oh sh*t you and it on the floor checking oil level! etc etc. Dad i don't know how it got that way! Tried and prooven with almost no damage just like the zuki product. Like you found out the hard way! ugly or not they are what you wish you had on as your pricing mirror, fairing, bars, Bullet hole sticker for the big gouge in your tank! Just from that tiny gas spill at the local rip and run!!        PS let me know if you find the hiway peg thing? I made a set of these for a bud a bit diff at the top so he could add a fold up hiway peg to each side, yep what i thought to! this is going to look like sh*t! Actually turned out not too bad, peg folded up and looked like part of the frame cradle. I am selling his almost new zuki guards off his 99 B12 on Ebay as we speak! He is up in N carolina / Viginia by now on a 2 week long ride out of this heat in fla. If you pass him on the way to N.Y. Give a wave