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06-10-2009, 02:36pm
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2009, 02:41pm by fasterfaster.)
There was a late GREAT frame builder repairer named Bobby Martin who sadly is no longer with us now. (RIP BOB) This man was a walking encyclopedia on frames and modifications to them.
During a conversation with him in the early days when Oggy Knobs became fashionable on the "street" he told me it was the best thing to ever happen for his business ............. laughing as he did so. He went on to say the reason being that in a drop on a bike without the knobs the impact was always spread over a large area and frames rarely were bent in just a drop and slide accident. With Knobs fitted the impact was concentrated on a very small impact area which was then transmitted thru the frame resulting in damage to the frame becoming even greater as tube type frames gave way to cast / alloy types.
He concluded from his experience and observations that at low speed or a side stand drop knobs protected cosmetics but apart from that usually resulted in more damage especially structural re the frame.
Just food for thought hey ?
ps
Motoplast is spot on the money .............. I saw a GSXR1000 with 500Km on the clock written off and the only damage was the exhaust can and the right hand foot peg had broken one of the casting lugs of the frame where it mounts. WRITE OFF
During a conversation with him in the early days when Oggy Knobs became fashionable on the "street" he told me it was the best thing to ever happen for his business ............. laughing as he did so. He went on to say the reason being that in a drop on a bike without the knobs the impact was always spread over a large area and frames rarely were bent in just a drop and slide accident. With Knobs fitted the impact was concentrated on a very small impact area which was then transmitted thru the frame resulting in damage to the frame becoming even greater as tube type frames gave way to cast / alloy types.
He concluded from his experience and observations that at low speed or a side stand drop knobs protected cosmetics but apart from that usually resulted in more damage especially structural re the frame.
Just food for thought hey ?
ps
Motoplast is spot on the money .............. I saw a GSXR1000 with 500Km on the clock written off and the only damage was the exhaust can and the right hand foot peg had broken one of the casting lugs of the frame where it mounts. WRITE OFF