Originally Posted by
gerryl
No it's nothing like "I haven't crashed my car, so seatbelts and airbags are useless." It's more like the seatbelts and airbags that came with the car work fine, and I see no value in changing something that already works.
Except the parts that come with the car are bush league. Nobody seriously concerned about a crash would wear an over the shoulder belt, and the air bags regularly decapitate people, and are really only there because the seat belts suck. Do race cars have over the shoulder belts and air bags?
Basically the way it works with tour bikes is this: If you have a standard LHT and take it transam, at the end of the trip these are the two questions:
1) How did it work for you? Answer, everything was fine after I switched out the seat.
2) Is there anything that could be upgraded or improved? Answer, every single part of the bike.
People self select either to be 1 or 2.