Help Me Chose Frame Sliders... With a Twist, I Already Have Them!

[Süsser Tod]

So... When it was time to buy frame sliders for the CBR and the SV I decided to go with Woodcraft sliders, which are perfectly fine on the SV:



You may have already seen Woodcraft sliders on the CBR, I guess we all have. What I hadn't seen were case savers. I saw the Yoshimura case savers that AC installed on her and thought they were a must, specially after replacing both stator and clutch covers (and I was too sparce with the Hondabond HT and the clutch cover is leaking... I have to re-do it). But, Yoshimura doesn't make them for the CBR, Woodcraft only makes one for the clutch cover and nothing for the stator cover, their solution a new stator cover... And I like my bikes stock, so that didn't work.

So I found these on e-bay:



Don't look too bad, and they look quite small. Right?


Err...


Nope...



That's the stator cover and a Woodcraft slider. As you can see, they are huge! And where do they go?



Hmmm, we have a problem... Here is where it would be on the bike:



And here is where the Woodcraft slider goes:



That isn't going to work. It's either the woodcraft or the E-Bay slider, as both overlap. Here is the other side, the clutch cover:



On the bike:



Same exact problem.

[Süsser Tod]

They do look sturdy:



BUT, I don't like the idea of having them attached to the engine itself. On the other hand... They don't require cutting of the fairings, the base is thick aluminium with three attachment points that might spread the forces.


So... which ones would you install?

[Süsser Tod]

Anyone?

[Builtgypsy]

I don't know about attaching frame sliders to the engine. Seems like the potential to fuck up the internals from the shock of a direct impact with that small of a surface area to take the brunt of it. Or the mounting points may be enough to spread the force well enough to work out okay.

Maybe get hold of the people who make the e-bay ones, find out what direct evidence they have that theirs is superior?

Those bolts into the covers are small compared to the really hefty ones on the woodcraft. Think they'd be able to stand up to a slow lowside crash for the e-bay ones?

[Süsser Tod]

Hmm, dunno, for the fist time ever the Chinese E-Bay sliders do not look like a copy of something else, I haven't seen the "real" ones, they look like something truly Chinese... Doubt they did a lot of testing.

[Builtgypsy]

I'd go with Woodcraft, personally. I just couldn't trust something that mounts to such small bolts, attaches directly to the engine, and comes from somewhere that I'd be very concerned about quality assurance and testing, not knowing anything about who makes them. Seems like a recipe for disaster.

[Süsser Tod]

Originally Posted by Builtgypsy

I'd go with Woodcraft, personally. I just couldn't trust something that mounts to such small bolts, attaches directly to the engine, and comes from somewhere that I'd be very concerned about quality assurance and testing, not knowing anything about who makes them. Seems like a recipe for disaster.

I've been looking at other case sliders, all of them attach to the engine using 3 of the cover bolts... Just don't have a mushroom shaped head to get stuck somewhere.

I'm not even completely sold on frame sliders either...

[Alawicious]

Originally Posted by Builtgypsy

I'd go with Woodcraft, personally. I just couldn't trust something that mounts to such small bolts, attaches directly to the engine, and comes from somewhere that I'd be very concerned about quality assurance and testing, not knowing anything about who makes them. Seems like a recipe for disaster.