GForce wrote:i am also after frame sliders and have been looking on ebay. you can get them for 100 but dunno if they any good. how much do they usually cost at shops?
much more..howie paid $300 or more for his set.... the "non cut" style with a bracket...
remember they are to protect the frame from a stationary drop, not to protect the whole bike....
my $200 crash's broke just as much as my $100 set when i dropped the blade at speed...
just fitted the rg protectors tonite... that came out really good... i can see why alot of ppl go for these...
EDIT: Pics attached..
gona try to clean up the left side, where i had to drill through... mite see if i can wrap something around the stem of the protector to cover up whatever is showing from the hole aswell...
I have just started my company MBP Components and im concentrating on Manufacturing Crash protection, fender eliminators and rearsets / jackup plates.
When you are looking for crash protection there are a few things you should look for
1 Material of the slider - you should be told the material the slider is made from, it actually makes a fair bit of difference from which material they use on the slider as the correct material will slow the bike down when in contact with the road.
2 Material of the spacers - If it is aluminium it should be at least 6061 T6 this has an excellent structural properties.
3 Material of the bolts - These should be a tensile strength of 10.9 any higher and they will just snap off, not bend and plated either zinc or cadmimum.
I manufacture my crash protection with the sliders being either white n60/n66 nylon or black acetial which has very similar abrasion principals, spacers and billet backing plate of 6061 T6 aluminium (these can be anodised to match the colour of your bike) and all the bolts i use are 10.9 tensile.
I have put a huge amount of research and development into the design of my crash protection and they are a very high quality item, made by myself.
I am also getting some MBP COMPONENTS stickers for the ends of the sliders to make them look the part.
Im selling these for around the $150 mark and if i haven't measured up a model you are after and i am able to measure it up (i can come to you in the following areas NSW Nowra to Newcastle), i will sell them for 1/2 price for the 1st one of each model i measure up. As i have only just started this business up i don't have many models that i have measured up as yet.
I also do bar end sliders, swingarm sliders and front axle sliders.
I will take some pics of the ones on my ZX7R for everyone to check out.
well if i put swingarm and front fork sliders on..then thered be not much room for nething else..lol...i feel like ive already gone over board with 2 sets (engine case and frame sliders).. tho im sure a bunch of guys here could be interested...
Hey guys, i have read this thread but still dont under stand what frame sliders are for?
To protect the frame of the fairings?
In a big drop i dont think anything will protect the frame or fairings, they are going to be fucked either way, But for a small static drop i can see how the sliders will protect the fairings, would there be much damage to a frame from a small drop?. Also why are the sliders designed to bend and not snap? how does this protect the fairings/frame?
Vukie wrote:Hey guys, i have read this thread but still dont under stand what frame sliders are for?
To protect the frame of the fairings?
In a big drop i dont think anything will protect the frame or fairings, they are going to be fucked either way, But for a small static drop i can see how the sliders will protect the fairings, would there be much damage to a frame from a small drop?. Also why are the sliders designed to bend and not snap? how does this protect the fairings/frame?
not so much faring protection mate, fairings are replaceable...the frame however is worth abt $5k ish..and if u wanna swap a frame, ur up for $XXXX's in hours worth of rooting about.... once a frame is scratched its a write-off...
i had em on my blade, and after several drops the fairings had damage..the crash's had damage (one did shatter) ..but the frame was scratchless...
Crash protection / frame sliders / crash knobs are designed to minimise damage to the motorcycle in the event of an accident it may be frame, fairings etc. As all accidents are not exactly the same the crash protection protects in different ways.
Quote - would there be much damage to a frame from a small drop?.
Hard to say as there are so many variables
1 - type of bike
2 - Crash protection yes / no
3 - stationary or moving (how fast)
4 - what surface did the bike fall on
the list could go on, its always a good practice to take your bike to a bike shop to get it checked out after a small drop or any drop just to be sure, crash protection or not.
From my experience from Sundays track day at Oran Park See Trackday topic, my crash protection saved me a good couple of hundred bucks even though i dropped my ZX7R in the sand trap they slowed the bike down in the sand and the crash protectors were keeping the pressure off my fairings which saved my fairings from cracking and fairing brackets from bending i didn't have any frame damage and the crash protectors didn't bend either, got back to the pits checked and cleaned the bike up and out i went again, now if i hadn't had crash protection my day would have probably been over then.
Quote - Also why are the sliders designed to bend and not snap? how does this protect the fairings/frame?
They are designed to bend if a certain amount of force is put on them this ensures that the crash protector stays connected to the motorcycle thus minimising damage to the motorcycle, there is a small percentage if the time the bolts do brake but this is not common when the correct tensile bolts are used, as i mentioned before all accidents are different.
From the research i have done around 85% of people that buy crash protection, buy it after they have had and accident, think of the money they could have saved if they had some before the accident.
