Just another acknowledgement glad your ok the bike is fixable.
One point that everyone seems to over look is all these sliders are not sliders.
At best and the ones advertised as " TOGS " tip over guards as well as all the rest are just that. They perform and do their job as designed as they have been made. There only use is to stop the blunt force when the bike falls over from loosing control and not being able to hold up the weeight of the bike or in loose gravel or put your foot down insome oil on the road, or any thing related to the above.
So every one that thinks they are sliders and will do the job when your bike goes sliding down the road needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
For them to even perform as sliders they need to be reworked and re -design .
Example; if they were to slide they would not grab or hinder the movement of the bike while slidding down the road. They should Glide or Roll down the road and take the impact with absorbing the downward force instead of stopping it and grabbing it as they do now. And as far as the bolt is concerned it should be a break away bolt and one not as strong or stronger the the slider material.
I hope everyone that buys all the sliders that have been mentioned realize that all perform well as tip over guards and not as sliders.
When I bought mine I knew what job they were susposse to do, and that was to help if the bike fell over and that is all.
I know paint can be slippery on the roads but how much was pilot error?? It also seems some information is missing?? Just an uneducated guess..................... weekend rider