No Im not kidding you--Got pictures of this wreck? I'd like to see how going end over end at 120kmh smashing on the billet aluminum covers held up.

 

Can that be a good thing or bad?

Good bike mechanic friend of mine told me the billet covers can break just as easy--coming from a 12 and slamming down on the cover--has anybody done that?

 

No pics I couldnt bear to look at them so I didnt take any. But I can tell you that the damage was light and Id estimate the covers would take another 10 hits like that. The covers are not only made of billet which is 10X stronger that cast(stock) but they are about 1/2 and inch thick where they would hit the ground. Youll break your engine cases before you break billet coveres

 

it is a bad thing, but something will break, cage or no cage...eventually...i was just saying that because someone asked how tough they were.

 

i love F I cages. i crash evertime i practice , hard too, and i have never broke a stator cover.

the new FI cromolly cages wont budge.

 

Cool thanks---If FI has a booth at Stuntwars I'll buy a cage from them--I think I'd have better peace of mind having 2 cages....this **** always happens when the weather gets warm too---

 

i had a powers on my old gsxr 1k.

everytime i thit the ground it flexed and broke my stator cover.

from now on ill go with 905 or f.i.

 

I second that, MXD cages are tough as hell. I would also second the billet stator cover. It's better to spend a lil extra money for a stator cover that wont break instead of having to pry the **** out of your cage (which I would have no idea how to do in the first place so I hope that never happens with my MXD).

 

still no mxd for the 900 rr.....?? wtf ??

 

i have an 02 gixxer 600,my case broke 2 times with 2 new cages,bent over,cracked case,!matt tells me he will give me a new one but the new style isnt out yet!!so it has been about 3 months???or more????i willprolly have to get another cage ??

 

How do you know if yours if cromolly or not? I bought mine in Oct or Nov.

 

just buy a 905 cage :YEAH

 

yeah but just buy another cage ??how do i know i wont have the same prob?i have seen fi cages blow apart 25 ft from me,so that cage cant be good either,it ripped the mount threads clean out!!

 

i have the bike lined up to build the cage this weekend. ill send pics asap. dont worry, im working on it.

and all this talk about chromolly and what not blah blah blah blah blah blah....


my bender can bend 1.25 chromoly wall thickness and 1.25 wall thickness for mild steel. it doesnt really matter. its all the same for the most part. yes maybe its a little stronger, but not strong enough to make a diference. if it was that much stronger, then construction companies would be building sky scrapers with it. think about it, it doesnt cost much more, maybe a few pennies. and if it was that strong the few pennies more would be saved with less material. stop bullshitting people

 

Had a good friend weld up a "stator guard" on the powers cage today:
If the pic sucks, the little support bar going across the bottom is pretty thick--3/8 inch....

 

I'll take more pics when I get my stator cover next week and install it--but I think this will work--there's only 1 way to find out and we all know what that is!

 

While we were at it, he welded a 3/4" yes....3/4" inch thick steel bar to the skinny powers plate--together, its 1 1/8" thick. :YEAH :YEAH

 

that support bad is directly over the cover is it ???!!

 

somewhat over--It'll be a few inches away from the cover...

 

nrc dose make them i got one if you looke in the parts unlimited catolog its not in there you have to call them and there only $130