Anyone know where/if you can buy these locally. Haldanes can get them made for $2-240, but are there any available out there?
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Anyone know where/if you can buy these locally. Haldanes can get them made for $2-240, but are there any available out there?
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Remember this thread SPman?Originally Posted by SPman
I finally recieved my sliders today from Motorvation USA. Paid us$50 including freight. Now I feel rest assured that if my bike ever 'falls' over there will be minimal damaged done to my expensive plastics! Pics attached.
Btw, did you ever get some locally in the end SPman?
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SPMan for what model, f1 engering in hamilton make them for all sorts of bikes
e mare libertas
Well, you know, I would have just bought the $2 ones.
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- mikey
parting of the sensory
That's interesting, Herr Doktor Zed. A guy at work has the same model (and colour - it must have been the soup du jour for CBR600RRRRRs) as yours, and I thought, "I don't think that's where his frame sliders are..?", so I went downstairs to look. His are in the middle of his fairings, about where the loop of the "R" is, which I'd imagine would protect more of the fairing in the event of an asphalt-surfing episode. I guess you didn't want to make a hole in your fairings to mount the frame-sliders to prevent a hole in your fairings?
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Der gummikuh man
Why not just buy a warehouse skateboard? 4 frame sliders, plus you get some plywood for racing numberboards, and some trucks, for ummm... scrap metal?
Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....
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PT, how do you think a Chinese skateboard wheel handles 180kgs of weight falling directly on it, let alone sliding down the road holding the weight of the bike? Has KK done the tests?
You stick with your "warehouse special" and I'll go with the professionally proven method. :spudwave:
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Correct! I did buy a pair of frame-mount sliders thru eBay and when they arrived I decided against cutting holes in my fairing, so I sold those off privately and purchased a pair that bolt into the existing fairing holes. I know they are not as strong and well positioned as the frame-mounted bungs but they have been thoroughly tested by the manu and that is good enough for me. I don't intend on seeing them in "sliding" action anyways....I guess you didn't want to make a hole in your fairings to mount the frame-sliders to prevent a hole in your fairings?
Der gummikuh man
Well, if it is a choice of buying $2 frame sliders, or all the extra benefits of a warehouse skateboard for $10, including 4 sliders, I'd go for the skateboard myself....PT, how do you think a Chinese skateboard wheel handles 180kgs of weight falling directly on it, let alone sliding down the road holding the weight of the bike? Has KK done the tests?
You stick with your "warehouse special" and I'll go with the professionally proven method. :spudwave:
Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....
parting of the sensory
The "guy at work" has a CBR that has seen some sliding action (whether that was before or after he installed the sliders/crash bungs, I dunno). His bike has all the racing goodies on (shox, pipe, HRC ignition kit etc.) and he has spare race glass anyway. And seemingly beaucoup de l'argent, so he probably doesn't care.Correct! I did buy a pair of frame-mount sliders thru eBay and when they arrived I decided against cutting holes in my fairing, so I sold those off privately and purchased a pair that bolt into the existing fairing holes. I know they are not as strong and well positioned as the frame-mounted bungs but they have been thoroughly tested by the manu and that is good enough for me. I don't intend on seeing them in "sliding" action anyways.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
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I'm sure you didn't miss my point PT - skateboard wheels are not motorcycle frame sliders (despite KK using them as such)! Made for a different purpose you see.
Here is the spiel that came with mine: "MOTOVATION Frame Sliders are meticulously designed and manufactured to provide extra protection to your motorcycles’ bodywork. The frame slider material was chosen to best withstand impact and abrasion and the design allows impact forces to be transmitted to the stronger area of the frame instead of the vulnerable bodywork. Available in black only. "
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Saw some in Peter Stevens shop in Melbourne, MCA (.com.au) might be somewhere else to try, but F1 engineering is a good lead someone suggested, I got some of his bars for my touring bike & they were very well made (if not hugely cheap a good buy never the less).
Main thing is where they are mounted. If they are on some daggy bracket then they will just bend out of the way & smash something. If they are on a flat section of an ally frame they could stove the frame side in, they really need to be on an engine mount or something. If they stick out too much they will just get ripped off.
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He's the only one I've got.
parting of the sensory
Indeed. I wonder whether sometimes the crash bungs cause more damage; fairings will tend to slide and absorb impact, whereas the bungs (even though they are slidey plastic) will tend to catch a little on things like kerbs, rough road surfaces, coarse chip gravel, m/bike carcasses, squished possums, chewing gum, etc. and cause the bike to do mental gymnastics and aerobatics.
Or summat.
Or maybe not.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Seated in heavenly places
This is precisely why sliders are made to specs to fit certain models of bikes. There is no such thing as "universal mount" sliders. And if you decided to fit them in a position on the bike that hasn't been tested and approved by the manufacturer you are just asking for trouble.
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Hmmmm.... skateboard wheels......
*rides to warehouse*
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