Re: [ST] Low Speed Damage

[Michael Roukas <mroukas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Matt.

--- Matthew Heyer <matthewheyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> SkyKing.  You just pull the t-55 torx bolt for the
> engine mount through the frame (you can see it
> through the vent in the fairing on each side).  The
> engine doesn't move.  Just put the frame slider in
> and tighten.
>  
> Matt Heyer
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Roukas <mroukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Matthew Heyer
> <matthewheyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2006 9:43:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [ST] Low Speed Damage
> 
> 
> Matt,  From what source did you get your frame
> sliders
> and how do they mount?
> 
> --- Matthew Heyer <matthewheyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > A note on all of these stories, and the complaints
> > on fairing damage: get yourself some frame sliders
> > for $70.  Most people think of these things as
> > high-speed crash protection.  But (my own story)
> one
> > time when I was at a gas station that had some
> pumps
> > that were full service and some that were self
> > service, I was circling while my focus was
> > reading/looking high up (the top canapy is where
> it
> > stated this), and all of a sudden I found that I
> was
> > paying attention enough to my circling - was going
> > to slow for my circling lean.  Well the bike
> started
> > to go down.  Like most others, I fought it so that
> > it was more "placed" on the ground gently than an
> > outright fall.  The bike sat on the frame slider,
> > never toughing any of the ST's plastics to the
> > ground.  Picked it up - all was fine.
> >  
> > Food for thought - a few bucks well spent given
> the
> > cost of the plastics.  They protect the plastics
> in
> > riding crashes, low speed get-offs, and even if
> > someone were to knock it over while parked.  
> >  
> > Matt Heyer
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