The Canyon Cages and the Side Case protectors work period.
The crash depicted below happened while my engine was dying and so the bike would stall unless I kept the RPMs up at over 2,700 (which too was not a constant) and hence required constant clutch manipulation when moving at anything less than normal pace. So when I was navigating over a steep and turning incline goat path and came past a wet patch which happened to have a film of oil like slippery mud the rear spun out just enough to lose traction and lend me on my ass... With anything like the usual frame sliders this crash would have resulted in '000s of dollars in damaged Tupperware, likely bent front frame stay, broken screen, headlight & mirrors, broken Baja HID light, etc, etc.
As you can see from the pics, despite the severe angle of the fall and height the bike landed from due to the incline of the road the only damage was some light scratches to the mirror and minor scrapes on the Canyon Cages.
I inserted a credit card type plastic spacer between the hwy peg and the faring to keep it from scratching the faring paint. The hwy peg got rotated and was close to the faring, but did not damage the fairing or the paint...
So as far as I'm concerned, screw the passenger comfort, these crash guards work period, if the passenger doesn't like them, she can go find another bike to ride bitch on
