Who has crash bungs?

every bike has one apart from my dr350 but im working on getting front and rear axel ones.
just be stupid not to really...

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by sputnik

Out of interest, and perhaps I'm missing something - can anyone explain why bungs are so expensive?

I think it's for all the reasons you mentioned. Some R&D, fairly well made, plus a specialist low-sale item. That would be my guess. Which leads me onto ...

Originally Posted by BBadger

every bike has one apart from my dr350 but im working on getting front and rear axel ones.
just be stupid not to really...

I do feel a bit stupid not having them, but also the idea of spending £80 on something I may never need, when I'm skint, is hard to justifiy. Think I'll just have to ride risky until I have a few more pennies to rub together.

Originally Posted by Fallout

I do feel a bit stupid not having them, but also the idea of spending £80 on something I may never need, when I'm skint, is hard to justifiy. Think I'll just have to ride risky until I have a few more pennies to rub together.

its more of a "id rather have them and not need them than need them and not have them" scenario.
Save up slowly and get your self a pair, just makes me feel a little safer if anything as they will take alot of the impact if the worst happens.

Dropped my bike twice on my gravel driveway and once when I fell off at about 3mph in gravel layby. Without the crash bungs it would be looking rather scratched and dented, with them there's only a tiny tiny scrape on my exhaust and a little bit of paint taken off my bar end mirrors.

you would rather wear a leather jacket that costs a decent amount "just in case". same sort of issue as the bungs really, i dropped my bike and really smashed up the side without the bungs. was the first thing i bought when fixing the bike and saved me a after few small drops.

I've been reading this thread thinking, I'm not intending to crash anyway, I have only ever crashed when I was doing something daft to deserve it, and I have insurance with protected no claims.

I also wouldn't agree you'd be stupid not to have them. I don't particularly like the look of them, and it's an equation of risk vs benefit vs aesthetics, and that's a very personal thing. So far I've never had any damage to a bike that crash bungs would definitely have prevented, and I don't pay a lot in insurance. Not having crash bungs on your bike doesn't make you stupid.

I'm that astounded though, that Reeder of all people, just convinced me to get crash bungs. I have no intention of crashing my bike, but I suppose a silly drop in a car park, could easily happen, and damage from that could cost more than 60 quid, be very annoying, and unlikely be bad enough to make an insurance claim.

Hmmm, off to google shopping.

EDIT: Though I did find on the occasions I dropped my half faired pointy SV, that the way it falls, the bar end and the indicator unit, do the same job as a crash bung.

Definitely worth it for that idiotic drop that catches you unawares when you're not concentrating. If I've dropped my bike a lot it's been on gradients where I can alway do with an extra inch (oo-er) and that's when the bungs really do help, bike tends to slide a bit downhill

I've dropped mine on gravel a few times too, bungs never fail to do their job. I have no scratches on my tank or rear plastics, I have not broken a single indicator (yet) and my radiator has remained intact. Exhaust has a couple of scrapes but nothing to write home about. Well worth the money.

Pleased I could be of service

At the end of the day the times I've thought myself least likely to damage my bike are the times I would have had it not been for the bungs.

It also needs to be pointed out that they won't save you in some cases at speed, my off at around 30mph wouldn't have been saved by them as the comfort bars hit the ground way before the bungs would've, the rad then hit a curb, in my case they wouldn't have helped.

Ask mr spiers if he thought crash bungs saved his bike too, there's also plenty of stories online about them too, damaging frames etc in some cases.

I accept they save a lot in slow speed drops but on my sprint they are over £150 and look horrible as there are two each side I think, I won't be getting some, if I drop it, I drop it.

In another respect I look on them as a kind of insurance.

If I pay 80 quid to protect my bike from damage, it's Sod's Law that I won't ever drop the bike and I'd have theoretically wasted that 80 quid. If I don't fit them I just bloody well know that within two weeks of buying the bike it'll be on its side with a few hundred quids worth of smashed panels.

So, I just buy the bungs now.