I hope that I am not creating controversy with this project. I am mainly trying to throw out some possibilities to improve the appearance. I am not the expert on the protection and fall down characteristics other than knowing where the Connie hit the ground with the current MC Enterprises crash bars. I had my doubts over moving the contact point up when the bars where rotated to align with the vane angle. The lower front attachment point creates alot of the problems.
Here is another approach which lowers the contact back down again although it is not a horizontal bar to contact the ground and it complicates the lower front attachment point and I am not sure about all of the welding involved and the strength of this joint. But it does smooth out the look where the bars interesect the attachment boss. Photoshop allows you to try alot of ideas before building the parts.
I probably could have lived with the bar design when it had the single horizontal bar intersecting the angled front mount bar, but when the second horizontal bar was added it was just too many horizontal lines conflicting with the angled vanes of the fairing.
Gordon