How many ride without the crash bar?

I thought often of removing mine, fortunately I did not, as my wife and I went down this past summer. They spared us a lot of injury and also prevented the bike from having much damage. As it was the bike still suffered over $5000.00 in damages. The bars are there for a reason.
 
You can hit an engine guard (crash bar) before your floor boards depending on the camber and grade of the apex of your turn. There was a great article in Motorcyclist magazine a couple years ago where they took action photos of people crashing in turns while riding the Dragon in order to show what people did wrong to cause the crash. Many of those crashes showed people dragging their crash bars and lifting the rear tire...
 
No. I don't want to find myself on the pavement because they may cantilever my tires off the ground if I come into a corner too hot. I can and have scraped pegs and mufflers through turns without incident.

Here's a pic from one of the crashes in the Motorcyclist article. This guy was fine as he scraped his floorboard, then his engine guard caught, his tires were lifted off the ground and he was history.
 
Meanwhile ... back in the real world ...

This is the TOURING section of the forum. It's for folks that ride TOURING bikes. If you're leaning one of these things far enough to scrape the crash bar, most likely you were already done anyway. If I rode a crotch rocket, then no, I most likely wouldn't have a large chrome bar around my engine. I don't, so I do!

Ride S-A-F-E!!! (Don't lean far enough over to scrape your crash bar!)
 
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