I have a set of Jardine's on my bike, and they come with those shiney chrome plated cast aluminum brackets. After crashing my bike last year, I realized just how weak they are. So, I was wondering if anyone has come across some other brackets that would fit nicely instead of the Jardine ones. I am looking for something machined from a solid piece of aluminum, not cast. They don't have to be chrome either.

 

not the best looking, but its probably the cheapest. i just cut up some aluminum strips from home depot

 

I've seen the Jardines with both. The ones I bought new back on '99 came with polished aluminum brackets, and then a '99 I bought and since sold came with the same exhaust, except the brackets were chrome plated. Maybe they cheaped out more recently? Id think the high mount two brothers brackets would probably work-they seem to be a similar height to the Jardines. They're just welded aluminum tube. My current LeoVince high mounts are higher than the Jardines, but the brackets are similar and would also probably work-they're also polished aluminum. The Jardines were one of the nicer looking sets of brackets, but they are a little on the thin side I suppose. Did yours just bend or actually break? The hardest part is going to be finding any of these replacement parts new.

 

Probably be fairly cheap and easy to make a cardboard pattern and cut out a piece of steel or aluminum and make a new pair yourself no? Last time I checked a couple years ago with Jardine they wanted $100 for a new pair of brackets.

 

Yeah, my thoughts too. If you make your own, you can also use a new design if you are like me and can't help yourself.

 

Ya, I had to get one when I crashed my bike. It was $44 for one of them..

When I crashed, the left exhaust took some beating; the bracket had spider cracks in it by the areas where there were bolts. The metal also bent as well, not like bending a spoon, but like smushing the metal between a nut and bolt head.

I guess I can try to make my own, but I don't have any idea of where to get the metal; nor do I have the tools to do that!

 

Yeah in all fairness I should include "time consuming" along with "cheap" and "easy." Without the proper equipment I guess it'd still be possible to drill out the pattern and then grind it all smooth like that guy building the crazy superhawk engined chopper on here was doing. Suddenly becomes more convenient to just buy a new one lol...

 

Ya, thats a lot of work..