I'm sorry guys, but for my 34" inseam legs, that rear mounting point of the "horizontal" bar is going to cause a knot on my shin that I'm really not willing to live with. I went out and sat on my bike, put my feet up on the pegs, and reached down to where that mounting point is located. I seem to me that I'm going to be banging my shin on it quite a bit.
If you do end up using that as the rear mounting location, couldn't you still connect the front end of the horizontal bar to the bottom (mounting point) of the vertical bar, giving it more of an L-shaped configuration so that the angle of the "horizontal" section better follows the lines of the '10+ bike?
And could we get a pic from the front of the bike so that we can see how far the bars stick out?
I think you should actually be fine with the shin issue. My legs aren't quite as long as yours but I'm not even close to hitting the bar when sitting on the bike. The photo may be misleading because the bar doesn't actually extend all the way to that mounting point. We're using a bracket that will allow the bar to be slightly forward from that mounting point so there's actually more room there than is visible in the photos. I'll take some other photos of myself on the bike and the relationship between my shin and the bar once the design is finalized.
Y'know, I originally had planned to connect from that point you're describing so the bar would follow the lines of the bike. Check out my awesome photoshop photo in reply #146, that's how I had originally planned the bar to be. For some reason they had to change it though. I'll talk to Armando this morning and see if there was a technological reason for the change and whether or not we can change it back.
Here's a photo from the front. These bars run really close to the fairing to allow for extreme lean angles a lot of you encounter in various situations.
Keep in mind, this bar extends past the front fairings but does not protrude past the rear saddle bags so they will not be protected in case of a tip-over. Honestly, I don't know of a single set of front fairing guards that will completely protect the bags. Our bathroom bars get close but even they don't completely protect the rear bags. Unfortunately, the optimal amount of protection would be achieved through the use of both a front and rear set of guards.
Can you get a shot of how much fall protection there is? I don't mean actually dropping the bike but putting a piece of plywood up to simulate how these will hit the ground.
That'll be coming once we get the bar completely tacked and bent into place. First we have to finalize the design before we do that sort of testing. We won't be dropping this bike but generally we have 4 or 5 guys lean the bike over to see where the bar will be coming in contact with the ground. I'll be sure to snap photos when we do this for you guys!
It's probably too late to even consider but I'm going to throw it out there anyway.
The radius is probably too tight but the ell at the bottom might be rounded off.
It's never too late! I originally wanted that part rounded off because it looks a bit nicer but in order to have the "quick-release" and the eventual integration of a delrin slider, the bar unfortunately NEEDS to be this way. I was trying to think of another design that would allow for the bar to be taken off quickly, as that seemed to be a big concern amongst you guys, but the current set up is really the best way I could accomplish that.