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Little Egypt Airheads
Do you use cylinder head protectors on your Airhead and do you believe them to be necessary?
I recently ran across an interesting treatise on this subject (can't recall just where, though).
The basic argument was that, in a low side crash, the plain rocker box covers on the cylinders have about 4 - 6 square inches of surface area that contacts the ground / pavement. The covers also have a gentle roundness to them, too. The usual "crash bar" will only have 1 square inch or so of surface area in contact with the ground during a low side crash and has a much sharper curvature to it, as well. The authors conclusion was that crash bars would be more likely to turn a low side crash into a high side one because of these factors. Of course, there are a lot of "depends" to what would actually happen, though.
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