Divvie 900 crash bungs

[CD]

Many modern bikes have suitable points around the top of the engine, where crash bungs can mount to protect the faring. The Divvie 900 has a few options for engine protection bars, but nothing to protect that vulnerable fairing.

The frame cross tube behind the carbs looks ideal, but it's too far back. So I bit the bullet and welded some 50mm x 5mm steel brackets to the frame to take some crash bungs. I put them forward of the fairing attachment lug brackets because I was worried about a heavy crash bending the frame. They look ok, but if I did it again I would put them 2" or so further back.

[mikestrong]

The engineering talent in this forum never fails to amaze me.

Leaves me feeling inadequate, I'm going to look for a m/c maintenance course at the local college now.

[CD]

Thanks

My biggest worry was if they went too far back they could point load the frame and actually be worse than nothing. A cross bar between the bungs would have been 10x easier but that pesky air box has a lot to answer for.

The really serious talent was the bloke with an oxy-acetylene torch who welded my LH silencer inlet pipe. It had cracked on the weld so a pain to weld (thick against thin). He did the job in less time than it took to remove the silencer, the heat hardly touched the chrome either side and its so smooth its hardly rusted up. Top bloke.

[mikestrong]

I like the indicators as well, nice & streamline.

Presume they were fairly easy to fit? Where did you get them?

[CD]

They came from M&P for about a tenner. Unfortunately I had to fix them with self tappers as the self adhesive tape didn't do the job very well. Since then I've found some "mounting tape" that would probably do it without needing the screws.

I might fit some LED units, but won't be going back to sticky-out indicators, because even a slight fall stuffs up the fairing.