police crash bars on an 1100 rt

Thanks in advance for all helpful opinions and advice. I recently purchased an 1100 rt. I would like to install some of the crash bars that the police models have had on their bikes. Questions are as follows: 1. Do they make crash bars for the 1100? 2. Will I need to drill or modify mounting points to my existing plastic? 3. Do you have a set of crash bars you are willing to part with? Thanks again. Cheers and God bless.

114975 said:

Thanks in advance for all helpful opinions and advice. I recently purchased an 1100 rt. I would like to install some of the crash bars that the police models have had on their bikes. Questions are as follows: 1. Do they make crash bars for the 1100? 2. Will I need to drill or modify mounting points to my existing plastic? 3. Do you have a set of crash bars you are willing to part with? Thanks again. Cheers and God bless.

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1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. No.

This is more involved than you may initially perceive.

The bars are mounted on a series of brackets inside the fairing (this doesn't include the couple dozen fasteners, washers and spacers):



The fairings get a hole above the cylinders, and two other mounting points are inside the fairing -- one of which requires the centerstand to be removed to install the rear mount.



It's definitely doable, just expensive and tedious to do starting with a civilian bike.

EDIT: My suggestion -- from a cost and installation complication start point: look into the aftermarket cylinder head protectors.

Feel free to ask more Qs.

Here's an item you may be interested in

mneblett

EDIT: My suggestion -- from a cost and installation complication start point: look into the aftermarket cylinder head protectors.

Feel free to ask more Qs.

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http://www.nationalcycle.com/z7105.html

I'll be parting out an RT-P in the near future. I'll try to remember to post the parts here.

snookers said:

Here's an item you may be interested in

http://www.nationalcycle.com/z7105.html
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+1 on the ZTechnik crash bars. I have a set on my 1100RT but happy to say they've never been tested.
They have 3 solid mount points to the engine, are easy to keep clean and the look fits the bike really well.