Frame Sliders, which brand?

[Quick281]

Yes, in a continuance of threads concerning my big tune up day this weekend, I have posted yet another thread in hope of tapping the intellectual capacity of this sick sick group of people.

I would like to install frame sliders on my bike. I am thinking about putting the new fairing on this weekend and figured it would be a good time to install some frame sliders.

Based on my own logic it seems that cut frame sliders would severe a better purpose even if by a slim margin. So I don't mind cutting into a fairing to install the sliders. Most of the excuses I was reading on the gixxer.com forums were full of t3h poops. I am a new rider, but I am smart enough to know that I will end up laying it down at some point. Either by complete accident or because I was really pushing myself at a track day.

On the other place I recall a thread and several people were discussing the important of the actual material used on the slider. Advice please?

Which fairing will I be cutting into? Because the right side of my bike is already torn up and I would have an extra right side fairing to perfect the cutting action before taking it to my brand new fairing if needed.

Thanks in advance!

And yes, you can expect many more threads. I will noob this place up if no one else will.

[Becca_007]

Delrin is the material you are looking for.

For brand I got lucky and came across a fellow board member (bike specific board) who machined mine for me. Far cheaper than having to go retail, and for bike they don't make many retail options anyway.

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by Becca_007

Delrin is the material you are looking for.

For brand I got lucky and came across a fellow board member (bike specific board) who machined mine for me. Far cheaper than having to go retail, and for bike they don't make many retail options anyway.

True... but you want something with plastic slider... not metal... from what I've seen metal tends to grip and bend or dig in and causes more damage... the plastic sliders well slide better and then you can replace the "puck" part.

[marko138]

Look for vortex sliders. They have replacable delrin sliders. That way when you ditch it you can just buy a replacement puck and not the whole deal. The cut sliders, in most cases, are gonna be a better option. The problem with no cuts is the bracket often damages the frame in a crash...the complete opposite of what the 'frame slider' is supposed to do.

[Quick281]

Sounds like Vortex is what I need to then. Off to find some.

[fpzx10]

I just ordered these. Woodcraft. One of the advantages is that the puck attached by a screw on the side. So if you go down, you don't have to dig the delrin out of the hollow part of the slider to get to the bolt head (I know this from experience & I think Trip will agree)



BTW... Don't get the colored ones. They are aluminum and don't hold up like the black ones (plastic)

[DLIT]

One word. Vortex.

[PhiSig1071]

Originally Posted by DLIT

One word. Vortex.

Two Words. Wood Craft.

The guy who founded Woodcraft (who's last name is Wood) is a privateer who saw the way other race parts were built and decided to build them the way they should be built. Vortex copied his design. If Woodcraft doesn't make it then I don't need it.

My $.02, take it or leave it.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Quick281

You my good man, should be renamed to the picture dood. Once again thanks for the pictures, another product I know to veer away from.

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

yeah Gas has FUCKING ENDLESS amounts of pics... and they all fit in 3 catagories... Thread bombs (the funny "powned" type)
Chicks
informative bike pics (this catagorie is further divided into 2 catagories... Sportbikes and CHROME)

before he got the BIGDOG he was a MAJOR he's still got the crown in my mind... 39K posts in like 4 years... dear GOD

Yeah my PB account has about 4400 pics in it and about half a gig. If you guys were big dog riders... you would understand the scope of my picture taking. On the computer its 1.64GB just in big dog pics (and they aren't big megapixel pics either). I have a pic of almost every bolt on the bike. Is quite handy when a guy asks about something.

On what type of riding for what type of slider...

What is regular street riding. The pic that I put up was from me just riding back to the highway after hittin the twisties. Then one small deer makes a high side and that was the end result.

My point is that you must protect it at "air force level" even if you are just "bar hopping" street riding.

Originally Posted by Quick281

Thats fucking insane.

As I said... that was about a 40mph high side!

[Quick281]

Ordered Wood Craft sliders this morning.