S10 South Africa rollbar / skid plate

[Augie_Dogie]

I have tried 3 times now to post pictures ( 8) and it will not post. I will try again tomorrow.

Salty

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[mjmrider]

Fugawi needs to decide where the fug is he. If he bows out, that opens the door for DaFoole to get in on this order. He has next right of refusal.

Eric,

I'm fuggin' in! Sent you an e-mail.

Thanks,

 

[EricV]

Ok, we are on track to place the order officially with the original five players listed previously. Once funds have cleared and arrived, I'll make the EFT from my bank to Rollbend and we'll get the bars on the way. I'm guessing Fri or Mon for the order date and just maybe we might see the bars the following week, but most likely little things will delay it some. Never done an airport to airport deal from SA before. Took me 23 hours to fly from Utah to India though, so it's a process.

More when I have it.

 

[Augie_Dogie]

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Here We Go

Cue the Gieco Pig.....WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


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[EricV]

That's some good looking bike pron you got there Salty. ::008::

 

[Salty]

Good day all

I have been looking around at existing highway pegs to fit up to the Rumbux, nada.
I want highway peg clamps to be mounted on the lower bar section at the rear, which would allow the pegs to be snapped back above the bar when off road (not for hard core bush busting or rock crawling). It is much more comfortable to be able to extend ones legs out when on long distance highway commutes, such as Halifax to Whitehorse, + 6900 kl on 100 % pavement. Do any of you have excess to metal working equipment or a machine shop willing to do a little R&D to have this made and how many would be interested to make it worthwild to do this. I have raised this with Deon (Rollbend) and there appears not available or interest.

Ride safe

Salty

 

[EricV]

I'm not quite sure what you're looking for Salty. There are numerous bar mounted foot pegs out on the market that fold up. Most will still stick out a bit when folded up. You might be better off with a tab welded on the inside of the bar to mount the peg to, if you're looking for no external protrusions when the peg is folded up. It might help the discussion if you could show a picture of some product that exists and does what you want, or close to it.

 

[erenet]

Good day all

I have been looking around at existing highway pegs to fit up to the Rumbux, nada.
I want highway peg clamps to be mounted on the lower bar section at the rear, which would allow the pegs to be snapped back above the bar when off road (not for hard core bush busting or rock crawling). It is much more comfortable to be able to extend ones legs out when on long distance highway commutes, such as Halifax to Whitehorse, + 6900 kl on 100 % pavement. Do any of you have excess to metal working equipment or a machine shop willing to do a little R&D to have this made and how many would be interested to make it worthwild to do this. I have raised this with Deon (Rollbend) and there appears not available or interest.

Ride safe

Salty

Last week I made some brackets, I liked the position, but the pegs folded up would hit the ground before my Altrider crash bars, didn't like that.

On the left side I think I can redesign it, but on the right a little more difficult because of the water pump.

Whit these rollbars / skid plates would be easy.

 

[EricV]

Rollbend Order Update -

All funds are in the bank, the EFT was done today, (but won't go over the wire until tomorrow morning since I missed the cut off today). I will post the expected delivery date in Las Vegas when I know it.

 

[EricV]

RollBend has received our funds and is manufacturing our crash bar sets. They believe they can ship by the end of next week. ::014:: ::014::

Deon told me a fellow pinged him on getting a crash bar set to Western Canada, but he can't offer wholesale pricing for an order of one. I will be placing a second order for 5 bars once this order is done. The pricing should still be cheaper or very close to the same as importing one set and having to pay all the duties, fees, customs broker costs, etc. for one bar.

When I have the second order of crash bars in hand, I will place a post in the vendor section that has all the details and final pricing. Shipping to individuals will be an added cost, but should not be too bad for a ~25 lb package. I do not anticipate any issues with shipping to Canada either. Honestly, from how long this deal has taken, it will probably be a month before I have the second order of crash bars.

 

[EricV]

Yesterday I picked up five sets of crash bars from the Virgin Atlantic freight warehouse in Las Vegas. Augie-Dogie met me at the customs broker and provided some most excellent assistance in doing a little parking lot uncrating since the big box was not going to easily fit in the back of my wife's blazer. RollBend did a great job of packing the bars, each individually wrapped in foam sheeting in two parts. The lower, with the skid plate bolted up, and the upper frame. These are a little bulky, so my mission is to find the best way to re-pack these to ship to the individuals. That shoud happen ASAP, but I have other demands today with guests coming tonight. I hope to re-ship the bars early next week.

Ok, pictures! Err, after waiting 20 minutes at the warehouse to get the crate released, I promptly forgot to document the opening of the crate, etc.
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Big box, nicely made up with a welded tubular frame.

One of the bar sets all wrapped up.

These are packed/wrapped really well. This is all the foam sheeting removed from one set of bars.

Bag of hardware and instructions.

Lower bars with skid plate bolted up, (they come bolted together).

Upper bars. These bolt to the lowers with four bolts and into the nose with two more, (it appears, haven't read the directions yet. ;D)

Together on the floor.

Three more sets waiting to be boxed up. 32" x 28" x 16" is not a common box size.

 

[Behmer]

Eric,

Were you able to mount your set on? If so how was the fit? How do they look?

 

[EricV]

Eric,

Were you able to mount your set on? If so how was the fit? How do they look?

I've been busy with other things the last few days. I am mounting them up today and will take pics and post them, along with comments. I also need to find boxes!

 

[stevepsd]

They look nice and sturdy.

I am wondering it you will be able to remove the side covers with the bars installed?

 

[EricV]

They look nice and sturdy.

I am wondering it you will be able to remove the side covers with the bars installed?

Yes, there is a little bit of wiggle to get them off, but they do come off with the bars installed. The right side is easy-peasy. To remove the upper bar section it is two M10 bolts, two M8 bolts and the rear two bolts at the plastic oem crash bars. Not bad, but seldom necessary.

 

[DevilAnce]

This is awesome. Can't wait to get my bars. ::015::

 

[EricV]

Piccys:

Brackets and hardware

Lower bars on.

Loose bars on the floor. 3-piece, lower, upper and skid plate.

 

[protondecay123]

Subscribed. That looks like the skid plate is frame mounted. Anyone done an oil change with it yet.

 

[EricV]

Subscribed. That looks like the skid plate is frame mounted. Anyone done an oil change with it yet.

The skid plate comes off with 6 bolts for oil changes. Haven't done it yet myself.

 

[Mike Sisson]

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