Being a new FJR owner (used 2005 bike), I'm interested in frame sliders. Sooner or later, I'll drop this beast. After looking at the photos of the split T-Rex sliders, I asked them about the problem through E-Bay about the no-cut kits for the early bikes they have on E-Bay. This is the response I got:
Hi,
This is Tom. I am the technical manager at T-Rex Racing. We did have a batch that was tried with injection-molded method a little over two years ago. We found out that on some sliders, there was an issue with a bubble at the base of the sliders causing it to fail. We totally scrapped the project then. We have been machining the frame sliders from solid rods, the same plastic the R&G uses. All the frame sliders have aluminum inserts inside. We use the highest grade bolts available, 12.9. We tell our customers that if they can break the sliders with the biggest hammer they can find. We will refund him 2x the amount that he paid.
Although the problem only happened to SOME of the older sliders, we encourage our customers that have them to contact us at
[email protected] for replacements. The sliders are 5" in length for the 06-07 fjr1300 models.
The problem did not apply to other year, other model, or 03-05 fjr1300.
Thank you for asking
Tom
I haven't made up my mind yet, but am considering trying these. I like the idea of the sliders mounted on a bracket instead of drilling holes in the fairing. I realize that's probably not really logical. Has anyone else bought one of the T-Rex no-cut kits for the early bikes (e-bay item #140333030773)?
Karl
