EricV said:
...They do make crash bars for FJRs. They are more street oriented, usually originating for LEO use though. I do know a FJR rider with a skid plate...
I know they make crash bars for FJR's... But not the kind I was thinking of.
So what does Rumbux offer for the FJR1300? ::025::
I also took my FJR off-road, but *NOTHING* like where that guy was going!!! ???
Funny though, decades ago... 1976 to be exact... A bunch of us were on what turned out to be an monumentally memorable ride weekend. All the bikes on the trip were pure street mounts. Some Honda CB750K's and 550K's, a couple of Z-1's, etc., including a CB350 Honda "Chopper" that had wildly extended front forks. I was on my 1975 Kawasaki KZ900 "Z-1B". At one point we went to one guy's Aunt's ranch near Tarpley, TX to hang out some. Next thing you know the guy whose Aunt had the ranch, Mark, says he's going on a "trail ride", so some of us decide to join in, including the guy who was riding the 350 "Chopper", all in no more than t-shirts, jeans, etc. and deciding not to wear our helmets. Starts off pretty gentle, dirt roads and jeep tracks, but then we're doing enduro-level water crossings and the like. At one point we faced this incredibly long, unbelievably steep, and what looked like impossibly rocky uphill...
Now I had been racing off-road for years at this point, but I wasn't absolutely positive any of us could make it up that hill on big street bikes... But as I was contemplating that ol' Mark just rode his Z-1 right up that hill, complete with "sissy bar", duffel bag, and all - easy as you please, like he did all the time. I went up next, but I know I didn't look nearly as nonchalant as Mark did. Everybody made it up, including the "chopper", until the last guy... A cop who was riding his CB750 and had zero off-road experience. He biffed it about a 1/4-way up, and we all had to help him get it up to the top. But we were all laughing the entire time, including the cop despite all the dings and dents his bike ended up with.
The rest of the "trail ride" was pretty uneventful, but massively fun, and it was that day I learned that you really could take just about any bike just about anywhere. When the ride was over I asked Mark how he made it look so easy going up that hill, and he calmly replied "Oh, hell... We ride up that hill all the time." ::025::
That entire FJR video reminded me of that day.
Dallara
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