One thing i've fancied for a while are a set of front and rear crash bars, Rear crash bars aren't very common on modern bikes so I thought it would help the plucky little hn look that bit more "custom".
After a quick measurement and armed with my pictures of the HN and the Honda CM, on which it's based, I set off merrily to my local motorbike shop, after ten minutes of wandering around looking at vastly expensive parts and bikes I enquired at the parts counter about a suitable set and was out of luck but they could order a set for £50, which I thanked them for on the premise of maybe returning,
Now £50 is quite a lot I think for two pieces of metal bar that is basically there to brake before something else does, so in a fit of man-logic I decided to look for something cheaper... eBay it is then.
I came across a set of rear crash bars for the Honda CM200T, old stock but in the packet with various bolts, brackets and gubbins, a cheeky minimum bid secured the bars for just £21 delivered, score!
A day or so passed and they arrived, a quick rummage in the tool box and... they didn't fit, Damn.
The mounting bracket, (which is just a strip of steel with two M10 holes drilled into it) was too short for the HN, but only by about 40mm, luckily I have a friend in metal fabrication who knocked up two 70mm eye to eye brackets for me the next day, and even more luckily for me he already "owed me one".
So back into the tool box and a few minutes later the bars were mounted with the new brackets
The base of the bar mounts to the exhaust brackets, I removed the pillion footpegs, I'm not allowed to carry anyone on the back and I don't want to anyway...
The top of the bar mounts to the exhaust strut, this required the custom made bracket...
And there we go, a rear set of crash bars on a "modern" bike, I like that
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