I have been awaiting the arrival of BMW crash bars for the GS since I ordered the bike. The last news I had on these was that there were “production problems” with no further news on a projected delivery date.

What these production problems might be in something as apparently simple as a set of crash bars is a little hard to figure but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were one of these things where Touratech have designed something for BMW’s use and now want to produce their own label version with some sort of resulting conflict with BMW.

In any event I have decided that I might as well get a set of Givi bars which look pretty good so I’ll cancel my outstanding order and order up the Givi bars instead.

Tim Cullis fixed these on his 650