Crash Bars Crash Tested?

[elbrff]

I had Rumbux for a while. One pretty mild drop in loose gravel bent the mounting tabs (frame and bars). Super easy to bend back. Just depends on how it lands I guess. The skid plate seemed indestructible.

Agree that EricV is great to deal with. I ended up replacing them with the AltRider/ACD combo because I just couldn't get past the fact that Rumbux only mounted to one frame tab on either side.

I realize this is a pretty old post but thought I would try and ask: how did you bent back the Rumbux? The same thing happened to my bike but I'm scratching my head on how I'm going to bend it back...

 

[WrongLane]

Tested my Altrider bars a couple times this year, both on the right side. 1 was a lay down at about walking pace onto hard packed dirt, the other was a low side at around 10-15mph on slippery mud, bike slid on the ground about 6ft as well. Both times no damage at all to the crash bars, not even scratches.

I did break of the lower cooling fin on the final drive when the rear wheel slipped of a slippery rock, have since installed a final drive guard as well.