| Author | Message | ||
     Nillaice |
has anybody used/seen/heard of R&G FRAME sliders? it looks like a bar with plastic sliders that bolts to the front jug/isoaltor and makes contact before the frame does on a tip over. i know the pucks are sposda keep the frame from getting messed up, buttt .... here's a pic Skinstains posted   http://www.rg-racing.com/browseType/Crash_Pro ... http://www.trojan-horse.co.uk/prods/70.html R&G makes other products for buell, but i am primarily interested in the frame sliders. i have the powers sutnt worx crash cage, and am looking for something less bulky. again, i'm asking about the R&G FRAME sliders the LSL is over half the price for seemingly less than or equal to half the protection. it only uses one of the front jug mount bolts, and the right side bolt is the one with a weaker interface to the jug. the sato looks like a good way to put too much leverage on the W bracket mounts and tear open the frame/gas tank. again about the same price as the R&G, but with a sub-standard mounting position. i mean 2 1/4-20 bolts?!?! what a joke! the front isolator bolts are 7/16-14 NC IIRC, and one of those still sheared off when i wrecked it big time last year. i firmly believe it saved the bike from being a total loss. there is just no great place to mount to for frame sliders. but the front isolator is the least-worst option. so, any body have input/persoanl experience/measurements? -thanks | ||
| Nillaice |
new years eve bump | ||
| Ljm |
http://www.rg-racing.com/browseBike/Buell/XB9-R/20 06/CP0136BL.aspx | ||
| Delta_one |
he saved the frame, too bad his swing-arm is thrashed. | ||
| Skinstains |
Swing-arm made it out OK, just some rash. It really did piss me off though as I had the axle sliders with me in the pits but forgot to put them on. Why am I always in a rush on race day anyway ? PM'd you Nillaice... . | ||
| Nillaice |
Skin, please tell me more. d'ya got pics of them off the bike? R&G's site sez they newer ones are different than pictured, and leave it at that. got post-crash/aftermath pics? would i have to trim up the RSS/LSS to fit them? | ||
| Delta_one |
that would piss me off too, you probably wouldn't have wrecked had they been on there either. at least that's how it goes for me  oh and I meant thrashed as in scraped rashed or dinged up not as in trashed like totaled or junked  BTW you look dangerously close to the front wheel, I hope you didn't contact it with any soft fleshy body part. I have heard of people getting wrists/forearms broken between forks and spokes.  |
