Mr Gonzales Rides again

Originally Posted by northwind

I'm not sure if the design's the same for yours, but for the carbed bike the DHMs are a disaster... The left hand one is just feeble, I reckon you could breakit off with a decent kick!

They're about 1" diameter aluminium alloy bars, which seem to go into/through the engine/frame. They look and feel solid, though the R&G's looked better with that big aluminium alloy block between the bung and the frame. I think the DHMs will suffer/bend more in a big crash, but if I crash that bad, bike is likely to be a write off anyway.

[northwind]

It's the bolt though- on the carbed bike, there's a short M10 bolt with an ally spacer which bolts into the engine. The bung then bolts into the ally spacer. The bung itself's very strong but the threads strip as soon as you look at them funny. Mine stripped the second time they were ever torqued up- the thread's barely capable of dealing with the recommended torque never mind an impact... Plus, the outside bolt was too short on mine, meaning only about a third of the abvailable thread was used!