I want to install frame sliders: Difference between revisions
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Here are a few photos I took of a bike that had an easy low side and then slid off the track into a big, smooth, flat dirt runoff area. | Here are a few photos I took of a bike that had an easy low side and then slid off the track into a big, smooth, flat dirt runoff area. | ||
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Everything was fine until the frame slider dug into the dirt and started the bike flipping. The frame slider is the broken-off piece in the first photo. It broke the case as it tore off, too. Notice the bent forks and shattered rear wheel. Another bike crashed in the same turn that day and only needed a new rearset and clutch lever to be back out later in the day. | Everything was fine until the frame slider dug into the dirt and started the bike flipping. The frame slider is the broken-off piece in the first photo. It broke the case as it tore off, too. Notice the bent forks and shattered rear wheel. Another bike crashed in the same turn that day and only needed a new rearset and clutch lever to be back out later in the day. | ||
The rider was actually in good spirits after the crash. It was an easy low side, and he didn't even get a bruise. He seemed to enjoy all the attention his bike was getting, but that might not be the kind of attention you'd like. | |||
We have been keeping statistics on bike crashes at the track for the last few years, and bikes with frame sliders are more than 3 times as likely to suffer major damage than bikes without. | We have been keeping statistics on bike crashes at the track for the last few years, and bikes with frame sliders are more than 3 times as likely to suffer major damage than bikes without. | ||