My First Mod...

[Gavin]

also thinking about Frame and SwingArm sliders...

http://www.brammoforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sliders_and_Swingarm_Spools


What brand do you like best?

Gavin

[frodus]

I used shogun spools. They're for an sv650 and are a bit larger and act as swingarm sliders too. Pretty solid and under $30.

[7racer]

I'm waiting for brammo's version of sliders/spools to come out. That's one of the things I'm waiting on Adrain for!!  About the CF. my tank is cf which I thought all "R's" where?  Maybe it's because of your custom tank?

[7racer]

And the tail tidy looks awesome!!!!!

[flar]

Somehow I suspect (and don't ask how I know this), that the foot lever and the hand lever will hit the ground first, umm, bend a little, and keep anything attached to that screw hole in the main frame from getting anywhere near the ground.

Of course, that's if the wheel turns down towards that side of the bike.  I don't want to be the one to discover what happens if the bars are turned the other way...

[Brammofan]

Oh, flar, that is the saddest thing I've read in a long time. 

[flar]

It's not a major catastrophe.  There was a lovely equation with v=0 and a couple of quick twists with some (hands and then later some) wrenches and all evidence of "the discovery" is pretty much gone...

[7racer]

It's not a major catastrophe.  There was a lovely equation with v=0 and a couple of quick twists with some (hands and then later some) wrenches and all evidence of "the discovery" is pretty much gone...

flar, don't worry, I'm with ya.  I already dropped the bike twice.  Both at speed=0mph.

First time I road to my work out place.  Go to put the kickstand down and lean the bike over.  As I lean the bike, come to find out the kickstand wasn't fully extended (and I wasn't use to seeing the kickstand indicator).  Over I go in a parking lot like a 3 yo off of his training wheels!

The next week I was like damn, I am not going to do that again.  So as I was pushing the bike out of the garage, I made a mental note to keep the bike from leaning too far to the left...instead, I lean it to the right and...over it goes again!

So yes. The foot lever (the gear shifter is especially prone to bending), the bracket for the front turn signal, and the ends of the levers...LOL  sucks

[flar]

Was the wheel turned towards the ground in both cases?  I haven't "tested" how it lands when the wheel turns away from the ground, but when it is towards the ground, the handlebars are there protecting the frame.

Now, with some amount of force, perhaps the bars might be bent and the frame might contact, but at that point I'm not sure how the rest of the bike would fare that you would be worrying whether the "Empulse R" got scratched off.  It's probably more likely to hit something like a pole that would miss the bars, but I'm not sure that a single slider at one point along the frame rail would statistically manage to find the pole/large rock before the rest of the frame got cozy with it.

[Brammofan]

When my Enertia fell off the hitch track on top of me, it ended up bending the handlebars. BrammoJen was already scheduled to come out for a software upgrade (I think) so she ended up replacing the bars. It destroyed by bar end mirror, too. Zero body damage (mostly because my body cushioned the drop).

[ttxgpfan]

Congrats Gavin!  Really excited for you.  Welcome to the darkside. 

[Gavin]

Thx

G

[flar]

When my Enertia fell off the hitch track on top of me, it ended up bending the handlebars. BrammoJen was already scheduled to come out for a software upgrade (I think) so she ended up replacing the bars. It destroyed by bar end mirror, too. Zero body damage (mostly because my body cushioned the drop).

Now, why didn't I think to dive under it to save it?