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I was pleasantly reminded what hand guards on a bike is for.
I was watching the part of "Long Way Down" where Ewan McGregor's wife joined them on the Malawi leg of the trip on a GP registered BMW 650 single. She had good tarred roads to her disposal, but dropped the bike after pulling it off and hitting sand. The clutch lever broke off, making the bike unridable. Fortunately she had a support team, but it could have been much worse.
So, apart from keeping wind off your hands, protecting your hands from branches and bushes, using them for carrying reflective tape or LED daytime running lights, hand guard protectors' most important basic function is to protect brake and cluch levers from bending or breaking.
I was watching the part of "Long Way Down" where Ewan McGregor's wife joined them on the Malawi leg of the trip on a GP registered BMW 650 single. She had good tarred roads to her disposal, but dropped the bike after pulling it off and hitting sand. The clutch lever broke off, making the bike unridable. Fortunately she had a support team, but it could have been much worse.
So, apart from keeping wind off your hands, protecting your hands from branches and bushes, using them for carrying reflective tape or LED daytime running lights, hand guard protectors' most important basic function is to protect brake and cluch levers from bending or breaking.
