DinX
New Member
I saw an AltRider crash bar test in the topic list, so why not make a Givi one too.
On May 6th I collided with a car during mu morning commute. I was filtering through a starting traffic jam at around 50km/h when a car decided to change lanes without looking and blinking for half a second.
The driver declared he was going around 30km/h before he changed lanes.
The car lost half it's side mirror (he wasn't using it anyway ::010: and had a big dent in the passenger door.
My Givi crash bars took the whole hit on the left side.
You can see on the picture how hard they were pushed up (the markings in the dirt on the bike itself). As I expected the radiator fan got hit because of that.
The only other damage on the left side was a bent shifter which could be fixed by just bending it back. I might replace it with a foldable one in the future.
After the hit I was thrown on my right side and slid from the center marking to the road shoulder (or how do you call the emergency lane ?).
You can see the skidmarks on the road.
Damage on the right side is mostly a bent pannierbracket (which they were able to bent back to the original position) and some scratches on my right pannier.
Ofcourse the foglight were gone because they were attached at the furthest most side of my crash bars (so they can see how wide my bike is when filtering traffic).
You can also see brake fluid running down. This is a little unsettling fact. Just crashing is enough to loosen the bolt at the brake fluid reservoir.
Total damage on the bike is €5000. But that's the list that goes to the insurance. Replacing the radiator fan was enough to make it ride again. All the rest are little sratches here and there.
They could have made it a total loss. The mounting holes for the crash bar were bent. If you want to fix this without a difference in color it would have been a new frame (because it's not realy black).
So all in all the Givi crash bars did a very good job.
On May 6th I collided with a car during mu morning commute. I was filtering through a starting traffic jam at around 50km/h when a car decided to change lanes without looking and blinking for half a second.
The driver declared he was going around 30km/h before he changed lanes.
The car lost half it's side mirror (he wasn't using it anyway ::010: and had a big dent in the passenger door.
My Givi crash bars took the whole hit on the left side.
You can see on the picture how hard they were pushed up (the markings in the dirt on the bike itself). As I expected the radiator fan got hit because of that.
The only other damage on the left side was a bent shifter which could be fixed by just bending it back. I might replace it with a foldable one in the future.
After the hit I was thrown on my right side and slid from the center marking to the road shoulder (or how do you call the emergency lane ?).
You can see the skidmarks on the road.
Damage on the right side is mostly a bent pannierbracket (which they were able to bent back to the original position) and some scratches on my right pannier.
Ofcourse the foglight were gone because they were attached at the furthest most side of my crash bars (so they can see how wide my bike is when filtering traffic).
You can also see brake fluid running down. This is a little unsettling fact. Just crashing is enough to loosen the bolt at the brake fluid reservoir.
Total damage on the bike is €5000. But that's the list that goes to the insurance. Replacing the radiator fan was enough to make it ride again. All the rest are little sratches here and there.
They could have made it a total loss. The mounting holes for the crash bar were bent. If you want to fix this without a difference in color it would have been a new frame (because it's not realy black).
So all in all the Givi crash bars did a very good job.