Highway Bars

[alanmcorcoran]

In talking with some other dirt/dual riders, many of whom had fancy shin length boots with fancy buckles, ALL protruding parts of the bike, including pegs (folded and otherwise) brakes, clutch, etc. are potential sources of injury. That's why they wear the knee-length boots.

I think there are big differences between an accident at highway speeds and a basic lay down. I've had three lay downs and I think in those cases, the bars would reduce damage to the bike and possibly make it easier to pick back up. No full speed collisions (yet) but given the kinds of reports I've seen on here of highway speed accidents, I think your odds of both the bike and yourself both being pretty well effed are very high, bars or no bars.

One exception to this would be as I noted - if the bars are wider than the handlebars - which it didn't look like they were. I have also carelessly clipped curbs and other parking lot protrusions with my floorboards - not enough to cause an accident or significant damage, but enough to scare the $hit out of myself. The pegs look a bit higher and probably wouldn't hit anything you wouldn't be normally giving a wide berth to anyway. I have encountered some pretty stupidly placed cement filled poles, water valves, sprinkler pipes, you-name-it in parking garages, gas stations, RV parks and the like.