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Dogbone sets - a warning

Don't go making your own or buying cheap ones or this might happen

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I'm quite handy with my hands and have done a lot of fabrication work in my time, so making new dogbones seemed like a doddle. What happened was pretty much all my own fault because the metal I was given to make them out of wasn't the very strong aircraft grade Dural my mate told me it was - it was common or garden normal alloy, he screwed up and pointed me at the wrong bit of plate. I can't blame my mate, he didn't know that someone had shifted the piles of meatal around.

The dogbones I made lasted 8,000 miles, including a trackday at Mallory, and then broke while I was doing 50mph overtaking a car, resulting in me highsiding and getting thrown 12 feet in the air to land on my ankle. A year later and I'm still recovering from it. Luckily my Bandit wasn't too badly damaged and I kicked it straught and kept using it once I put proper dogbones in, but if it hadn't been the 75,000 mile piece of crap that it was and something decent I would've been really hacked off.

Talking to the traffic coppers who attended the scene they told me they'd seen two or three bikes that had suffered the same thing in their time on traffic duty.

What I should have done was get someone I could trust to make them from high carbon steel, like the originals are, or bought quality ones from a known and trusted supplier...not some monkey who flogs them cheap on eBay.

You've been warned.