| Author | Message | ||
     Hkwan |
http://home.earthlink.net/~darkhorsemoto/images/RaceSlider.jpg I've just came across this - would you guys think this is strong enough to act as a spool? That's what the product is advertised as (along with acting as slider). BTW, this is from Dark Horse Moto. If not, what do some of you use as spool's for the rear stand? (Message edited by hkwan on December 06, 2004) | ||
| Aztec12r |
got it.. like it.. get it.... happy holidays | ||
| Hkwan |
Aztec, you are using it for the spool type rear stand as well? | ||
| Joele |
I got the regular Dark Horse slider - I like it and the price is reasonable. Plus Keith is easy to deal with. | ||
| Evil_twin  |
And Keith is a BadWeb sponsor.  | ||
| Gentleman_jon  |
I would not recommend this "spool slider" because one of the main reasons to lift the rear is to change the tire, (or in the case of us '03 owners, to replace the belt:-). Naturally, neither of these tasks would be possible using these spool sliders as they preclude the requisite removal of the rear axle. In addition, they look like they might have a tendency to "grab" the asphalt in case of an unplanned dismount. That is one reason why the clever fellows use the low sliders, the other reason is that they are less expensive. | ||
| Tripper  |
Aluminum grabs asphalt? I need to tell my old bikes about this! | ||
| Blake  |
Henry, To answer your question. Those are probably the strongest sliders in existence. They are seated within the hollow steel axle. I've seen other configurations of swingarm sliders on other bikes that mount to the swingarm itself that have in a crash caused damage to the swingarm. That won't happen with a configuration like the darkhorsemoto style that get seated fairly snugly into the hollow axle as well as being tension bolted together via 3/8" steel rod. You can see the narrower boss portions of the sliders that seat within the axle in the pic below. Can you say "stout"?  As to the criticisms above... It should be obvious that the spool version of the sliders are not going to help with rear wheel removal. They simply make it real easy to put the bike on the rear stand. Keith created that configuration in response to a customer request. To remove the belt one only need loosen the rear axle. To obtain access to the axle, one simply removes/unscrews the slider. It doesn't get much easier. The conjecture about the "race" style sliders looking "like they might have a tendency to grab the asphalt" is uh, well... conjecture. | ||
| Robxb  |
Learn by my mistake, DON'T ask about sliders on this board !! lol | ||
| Buells Rule! (Dyna in disguise)  |
Or lean angles, counter steering, synthetic oil, etc  | ||
| Blake |
Don't forget the dreaded... contact patch!  |
