| Author | Message | ||
     Eat_a_duc |
I like the sliders that www.darkhorsemoto has on their site but would like to know how the passenger peg sliders work and look. I have also seen a BWB bike that has the skateboard wheels for axle and swing arm sliders. Very original and cool looking way to protect the bike, I think I,m going that rout. Yea or Nay? | ||
| Eat_a_duc |
This is a repeat from another thread, but this is a picture of the wheels I'm thinking about using for sliders at the axle and swing arm points.  | ||
| Xb12ri |
I think either way is a good way. Its more of a question on what suits your style and budget. | ||
| Dako |
Does anyone have pics of the skateboard wheels actually on a bike? And maybe a description of how they made sliders out of them? | ||
| Buellistic |
The SKATEBOARD WHEELS you want to get are like the ones "THE LORDS OF DOGTOWN" used, as they are much faster !!! | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
James, I have those wheels on my my bike:  They are mounted using a threaded rod. Here is the detail in section:  I use the washers to stand the wheels off the fork so they can rotate. Please note: the wheels use the standard skate board bearings: they are necessary to support the wheels and must be ordered separately. I have not crash tested them, but my nephew has at Willow, and says they worked fine. The wheels are manufactured by Ricta. | ||
| Buelltroll |
They fade after about a year.  | ||
| Eat_a_duc |
Thanks Jon. You were the one that sent me the diagram on an earlier e-mail. I was looking through the other threads to try and find your bike for other people to see how you did this. The picture you just posted shows much better detail, I'm ordering the wheels and bearings right now. Glad you found this thread! | ||
| Eat_a_duc |
Awesome! | ||
| Percyco |
Here's a thread from about a month ago with lots of pics ! http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/32777/177789.html?1140758439 | ||
| Eat_a_duc |
Buellistic. I think I will use my old "slimeball" wheels the next time I do a "drop in" on my bike at the park or empty pool as they provide better stickage! BMX Buell?  } | ||
| Skully |
James (Eat_a_duc), The DarkHorseMoto passenger foot peg sliders simply plug into the foot peg mount and use the OEM foot peg pin.  They match the style and functionality of our other sliders and won't fade.  If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to drop me a line at darkhorsemoto@earthlink.net Thanks, Keith http://www.darkhorsemoto.com | ||
| Moonrunrs |
I made a set of the skateboard sliders last week. REALLY easy to do and cost less than $20; the most expensive thing is the skate wheels and the cost of shipping them. There was some talk of the skate sliders flipping the bike, but I dont' think that would happen. | ||
| Blazinc5 |
I remember seeing the thread on the skate board wheels,, Personaly I find it a sweet idea, and I don't see how it would make it flip the bike either. specialy with the wheels beeing on bearings.. But on the dark horses pass-peg sliders. I would be afraid of the bracket snapping on impact before the slider accualy doing any sliding. As a visual item it looks great, but I just don't see any cast aluminum item such as the passenger peg bracket taking any real impact past a few mph dump. I haven't seen any broke from wreaks or a bike falling over. It's just that after working with alot of different metals and plastics over the years beeing a machinist.. Cast aluminum really don't like impacts and don't like to bend either. | ||
| Dungood |
Looking at this pass-peg slider, I don't think it is physically possible that it will actually touch the ground, unless your handle bar is completely broken off... I've lived through 3 slides on my XB12S (last one at 55mph), and apart from telling you that this is a tough son of a gun, the only points which touched the tarmac were sliders/weights on my handle bar tips, my carbon frame cover, clutch lever (just the tip broke off, I went home riding the bike), and the tip of the swing arm. Not a scratch on the passenger peg... | ||
| Skully |
I encourage you to use sliders on your bike regardless of whether you buy them from DHM, LSL, or make them yourselves. Heck, we had one guy here on BadWeB making them from cabinet knobs! If you ride for very long, sooner or later you are going to drop the bike. I had over 100,000 miles on two wheels before I crashed the first time but that is another story... Devin (Blazinc5)- the point you make regarding the passenger foot peg bracket being a casting applies whether it has a foot peg or a slider on it, right? Your concerns also have a lot to do with the quality of the metal used in the casting. You may be surprised at how many of the structural members in your XB begin life as castings. Just from memory, aren't the triple trees, many of the frame components, the swing arm, and the frame rails (Lightening) cast? Dungood- I'm really surprised that in three slides, the passenger foot peg bracket never touched the tarmac when you look at how far out it protrudes. It is hard to argue with real world experience though! Cheers!  Keith | ||
| Dungood |
@Skully - might have to do with the fact that immediately after purchasing the bike I replaced the stock handle bar with a wider and straighter afermarket bar from LSL. I secured the touch points with carbon frame covers and frame pucks, and LSL crash balls attached with "cold weld" to the swing arm, slightly forward to the axle to increase the coverage and safety zone. |
