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Rob's latest Flag type handguard thread

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well you full wrap guys can laugh at me.....or give me the I told you so. (I used them for many years)
But just a report for my latest use of FIM spec flag type handguards.
Ive been using the OEM Polisport black hanguards with good success throughout the dry season here on the 310. The design looks cool but the lack of upper outboard coverage (for some reason, probably style alone, they have an angle cut molded in and dont have good upper outboard coverage) has cost me lately as our traction with great moisture has improved exponentially, trashed my right pinky and have bloody outer knuckles on both hands for a couple of weeks now, all my gloves are torn and tattered. Traction so good that my angles are much lower and turns tighter, just getting ripped from inside corner brush (mostly manzanita hard wood). Luckily we rarely confront real trees like alot of you guys do!!
I am still sticking with flag type but will go back to (my choice for my TXC450) Acerbis X-Force which are angle shaped with lots of upper outboard coverage. I will post up a hand/gloves foto asap for S&G. stay on the mission ride ride ride!!! RN
conclusion OEM polisport are designed more for roost coming up from the ground rather than things that are stationary above ground level.
 
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CEMOTO:

love these for the hydro's.
http://www.cemoto.it/articolo.php?id=343&lingua=uk

and for the cable bikes...
http://www.cemoto.it/articolo.php?id=151&lingua=uk

they ride up pretty close to the lever. stuff rarely snakes through. i couldnt break them and bro i tried the ones on the 125 were battered and scarred deeply and took some huge hits. i also got a pair of hydros, trimmed them a bit and riveted them over the cable ones on the 125. made them bomb-proof. i could smash pucker bushes to bits wit these.
 
I'm laughing at you. :)

wrap around, with big shields and then bigger shields over them. Never break a lever, do not get muddy hands and levers, master cylinders stay clean, trees jump out of my way, have not had a big ass bruised knuckle for years.

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i like full wrap for thorny stuff like the accupuncture trail in Az. really pays to get the plastic away from the knuckles cuz them throns go through stuff like butter.

this threads for flag types cupcake! take yer elephant ears elswhere man! and xmas is over man, pull up them candy canes before the yard gnomes move in and eat um!
 
PV,
those look like the older model oem cemotos and you doubled thenm up good idea, looks good and even looks cool as dual color set up.
I think my 06 TE450 came with blue ones like that.
 
0213131302.jpg dr. rob: two sets for 'porky' (cable type). bascially the same set that came with the '09 WR125. includes hardware (longer pivot pins etc). e-mail craig at 'motoplastics us' for a hydro set. shred on mister mann baarooop!
 
mraaap!

dayz on. throttle's up in pic 1 cuz i was finally getting around to saftey wiring it (been sick, not riding:censored:) , pic 2 needs a lil more torque. once i snap the stock zip-tie i'll take my tiny die grinder and widen the slot inboard a tad for a 100# zip-tie. best little hand shields around, the abuse these can handle is amazing, ground up on rocks, clawed/gouged to bits on lashing branches, you name it. good balance of stiff and flex and these wont snap when frozen. 0213131755.jpg0213131755a.jpg
 
real close to what i just took off nto sure bout the ones you got but ones i just replaced are too far away from my hand for me and they flop too much. beats nothing though! mrrraaap! my buddy turns down street-bike bar end weights on his lathe for dirt-bike bars, tossing a set of those on next, helps keep the lever out of the dirt some and makes the end of the bar bombproof. ya can drag 'em on cliff sides, pinch points and keeps yer hands safer with more stand-off.
 
yup- my last pair were gouged so deeply from branches. man ray-ray getting yer moneys worth on the left one howd you crack it like that???
 
pvduke said:
yup- my last pair were gouged so deeply from branches. man ray-ray getting yer moneys worth on the left one howd you crack it like that???
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Yep, those are the stock ones with my gouges... They look a little better when I shine them but they are really toasted... These guys have hit the ground numerous times the first and second yr I was here causing about all that damage ... Probably sharp rocks causing the cuts ... Yr ~3, I just had to make up my mind to stop falling over or crashing so much ...
 
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