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Does anyone have any experience with Rizoma engine guards? I just found them on a website and really like them. Well, I usually add sliders on my bike, but these look good and much useful. Want to know your views/advice before spending almost twice the cash compared to regular style sliders. I am not committed to purchase Rizoma engine guards, so recommendations for other brands are also welcome.

Thanks..

It's being mentioned that ordinary sliders can hook on to something,
causing damage to the frame/engine. I have no first hand experience.

The Rizoma you're looking at is the ones hugging the frame, right?
I like the look and the idea.
Not sure which Monsters they list it for though.

Keep us posted [thumbsup]

If you end up buying them, please do not think you need to test them on our behalf...

i considered the rizoma engine guards before going with the traditional style of framesliders. speaking from personal experience, the regular framsliders kept my 695's engine from totally slamming onto the pavement during a 45mph wipeout. trying to imagine the bike in the horizontal position, the rizoma engine guards don't seem like they will keep anything other than the frame from making contact. besides, the regular frame sliders give you a place to rest your foot after the footpeg is broken off. ;D

New parts are cheaper than anything Rizoma sells to protect them. Why spend $300 to protect a $200 part? I dislike Rizoma not just because their prices are insulting, but because they stick out like a turd in a punchbowl on any bike they're installed on. I'm more for parts that actually function well and don't interfere with the original aesthetics of the motorcycle, which I tend to believe is sacred to an extent. Rizoma parts are intended to dress up a bike yet instead upstage it.

Which frame sliders would look better/good?  ???

Any of the others available perform the job admirably, are cheaper, and are less ostentatious. Rizoma parts are too expensive to use as sacrificial crash protection. Also, the sliders I see on the Rizoma site seem just as likely to hook onto something in an accident as any of the others.
I know my 'grumpy' opinions are never appreciated, but I feel compelled to offer an alternative view to the usual cork-sniffing bling worship that pervades the forum. I'd drop $3500 on some BSTs, might even blow money on Ohlins vs having the stock suspension reworked, but I'd never overspend fruitlessly on Rizoma unless I was completely obsessed.

The ones I was thinking about are these

http://www.rizoma.com/Prodotti/zoom.cfm?IMG=http://www.rizoma.com/IMG/Prodotti/Big/PM501B.jpg (http://www.rizoma.com/Prodotti/zoom.cfm?IMG=http://www.rizoma.com/IMG/Prodotti/Big/PM501B.jpg)

A little less ostentatious, but still a Rizoma-look I guess.

FWIW, Bergdörfer, I find my own style preferences more and more along the lines you're talking about 8)

I ran the speedymoto sliders and can attest to their strength and ability to save stuff if you dump. They are track tested as is all their stuff.No harsher conditions than being flogged on a track whether is AMA Racing or just track day stuff,either way if you come off you wont be doing 30 mph.....

I'm stealing the "cork-sniffing bling worship" line  [laugh]

My New Year's resolution is to CNC any new bling for my bike myself. I'm tired for paying out the nose for $15 worth of aluminum and a few minutes of a milling machine's time.

My new years resolution is to drop a dress size and date a milling machine operator.... [laugh]

I've fitted the rizoma engine guards that Stopintime posted the link to to my hypermotard, they seen to me to be a better sollution than the usual type as they not only bolt through the frame but sit tight up against it aswell.

BTW..I hope that they are never needed... ;) ;)

 [coffee]

I have the speedymoto frame savers and have crash tested them at least 2x on each side.  they work well but you gotta make sure that they are tight after the crash.  some other brands i've seen bend the opening for the engine bolts others, cyclecats, are designed to brake off to keep the bike from tumbling.  I've never seen an engine casing get ground through on a bike with sets and frame sliders.  although the tanks will rip at the hinge if not welded. [bacon]

Precisely why I've decided Truckinduc is my personal role model for modding. That boy makes it happen. Necessity is the mother of invention in his case, and the stuff he ends up with is more exquisite than anything you can buy. We can't all do it that way but we can at least try.   

What the....  Someone's been reading my diary.  There's no way you came up with that on your own.

I'm gonna buy some miller and drop my dress [bacon]