Aw shoot, Dan, sorry you didn't like them. Serves me right for giving advice. [:@] I loved mine and thought they worked great as is(was). Actually, I ended up shortening the connecting rod piece on the clutch side to keep the brake like from rubbing up against it, but I only did that after I owned them for a while. But it looks like you have a different brake line so maybe you didn't experience that. The right side was close, but I found that while it touched the rubber cover on the master cylinder, it didn't press hard up against it and mine never wore a hole there as far as I can remember.

 

Brian, it was good advice, I do like them! I'm pretty brutal to my bike on the trail and I think that they have held up very well given the circumstances. Others that I have looked at (no first hand usage experience) don't seem to be as sturdy -- maybe not much better than the stock elephant ears(appears as though they might break if I look at them wrong).

However, little bit of tweaking will get them (the MSR hand guards) to be a superior product in terms of strength.

 

Yes Frog, the ones with the bar inserts are what you're looking for.

The ones with only one fixation point aren't worth squat.