I'm going to buy the GIVI TN348 crash bars, weld a GIVI monokey frame on both sides and fit forward panniers. This should solve overloading the rear frame and transfer weight. Looks, have you seen a picture of me!! Oh and if I hit anything hard the panniers get it before I do. The only thing I need is skinny or hand made aluninium panniers

I have received the Adventure Spec crash bar/bash plate combo. However, the checklist of what I should have received dosen't match what came in the box.
a. A bashplate present
b. A set of crashbars present
c. Three anodised aluminium spacers one only (which dosen't fit)
d. 2 X M8 20mm stainless steel flanged bolts the ones attaching the plates to the bars??
e. 1 X M10 90mmstainless steel bolt present
f. 1 X M10 150mm stainless steel bolt present
g. 2 X 10mm stainless steel nyloc nuts one only, but the front attachment bolt now appears to be welded on (new design?)
h. 4 X stainless steel washers 3 only

I phoned Adventure Spec, but the guy "wasn't familiar with the product" (?) so would call me back. Am I missing something, or have they sent me the wrong bits? This is only the second time I have ordered from them, they messed up my first order as well, but I don't want to complain if it turns out it is me being dumb (which is likely). Help!

Yep the list and pic is wrong but its all there. Mine went on ok.

Thanks for that. It is just that the spacer doesn't fit into the gap at the rear of the plate; it is too long.:hb:

OK. The nice man from Ad-Spec called back. The fitting instructions are out of date and all necessary parts were there for the current design. The spacer was 1mm too long (or the gap was 1mm too narrow) for where it was supposed to go; but a bit of friendly persuasion with a hammer slotted it home. Reasonably easy to fit once I eventually got going. Now if only I could get the centre-stand assembled properly! (How do you get the uppermost rubber bung into its hole?)