Do bars provide that much extra protection over bungs? Considering the bungs are £25 and the bars are £75. Should I be stumping up the extra?
had those ally bungs on when it went down done the job nicely and looks better then the r&g butt plugs on the fzs600.
Then again on the fazer 1000 put bars on and havnt tested those.
What I have heard is that bars are better at low speeds and bungs better at high speed.
However I have only test bars at low speed and they did the job really well. Have no intention of high speed testing of either bars or bungs.
not too sure which is better but the bars doo look nicer
cheers for your thoughts. I thought the bungs look better than the bars though?
My bars have worked when i crashed offroad and when i threw it down the road over ice and snow so i vote bars 
Just be cautious and plan to stay upright. Bungs and bars spoil the look of a bike. Riding slowly and anticipating hazards is a small price to pay for clean lines that reflect your own svelte physique.
that’s all well and good, until a BMW driver pulls into me and puts me on the floor
Yes DRIVER DRIVER 
BMW RIDERS are all good tho 
Car drivers.
The best reason I’ve ever heard of for crash bungs and bar ends. That and not being rich enough to afford an entire new fairing panel…
Bars are always going to look o.k and work well on nakeds and trail bikes. Bungs on those look a bit silly. Bars on faired bikes can ruin the lines and make the whole thing look like a crock.
Against which, I was damned glad I had bars on my old BMW RS airhead when I had to bail out to avoid white van man. They saved everything, including the ultra expensive fairing panels, except themselves and a pannier lid.
After 40+ years of riding I’ll stick with “Don’t come off”. 1: It hurts, and 2: It’s just luck what happens to you and the bike if you do.
If you ride a lot - particularly commuting - and you need your bike to be operational every day to get you to work - then bungs/bars are a must.
They will save your rad/engine casings in the kind of silly relatively low speed crashes which happen from time to time when you commute day in day out - either braking too hard and losing the front when when someone u-turns in front of you, or the usual diesel related offs - or in my case - losing the front in a pool of cooking fat that leaked out of some garbage bags outside a restaurant (I can’t remember if it was Greek or Italian, it might even have been Lebanese - but that’s irrelevant).
If I hadn’t had the bungs the sticky out rad on my old SV thous would jhave been totalled and the bike would have gone home in a recovery van.
Bars often look good on nakeds - giving the bike a tough, urban look in my opinion.
A discreet set of bungs for sportsbikes.
Know of a guy who got run over by a Volvo driver who instead of braking after pulling out of a side junction and knocking the biker over, simply carried on!
It was saved from any serious injury as the the crash bars took the whole weight of the Volvo. He had only bruising to his legs.
One lucky ******.
Bungs are a good investment. Carrie’s R&Gs paid for themselves several times over when a t*at in a petrol station reversed into her at a fair old rate. The bike was 14days old!
Eejit was daft enough to tell me, “sorry mate I didn’t see her”. Oh my did he regret that, a looooonnnng lecture in front of the girl he was trying to impress.
Bungs for fared bikes and bars for nakeds, in my opinion.