View Poll Results: Who has the best cages and why?
Freestyle Inginuity
162
36.57%
Racing 905
158
35.67%
Another company(Who?)
95
21.44%
I make my own(Pics attached)
28
6.32%
Voters: 443. You may not vote on this poll
Battle of the cages poll. Who makes the best and why?
Back to North Carolina...
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 3,478
From: Ft Bragg NC area
I normally would get in earlier on this **** but anyway I dropped my 929 no less than 12 times in the last 2 days and my FI cage held up fine. ****, I F*ck up and drop so much now my friends don't even bother to help pick up my bike anymore.F*ckers!!!
Stunt Pimp
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 2,330
From: Ft.worth?Dallas ,TX
i dont ride for p.o.b. anymore. and i dont work for freestyle ingenuity.
but i still use a F.I. cage . the new cages that tim has built is perfect. i learned circles on it. i ve hit the ground at least 75-100 times and it dose not move. highsides, lowsides, hit the ground at 5 mph up to 40 mph and it dose not budge.
i would not run anything else.
but i still use a F.I. cage . the new cages that tim has built is perfect. i learned circles on it. i ve hit the ground at least 75-100 times and it dose not move. highsides, lowsides, hit the ground at 5 mph up to 40 mph and it dose not budge.
i would not run anything else.
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 23
From: TIJUANA, MEXICO
Originally posted by gsxr7502001
no bro i was selling my friends cage for him. its and r6 and i dont like my cage to be honest with you. i got permanent bruises on my shin cuz of that **** and i dropped a stoppie at around 25-30 and the cage is all loose now. rattles like a bitch. i have a 750 not an r6. i do speak truth, you need to read the details better bro. and i said the cage was in good shape, like no scratches & **** like that.
like i said before, 905 cages are good but mxd are better. all cages are good for the most part. ive had them all, the FI on my f4i and the 905 on my gsxr. so dont try callin my out when i havent said anything.
no bro i was selling my friends cage for him. its and r6 and i dont like my cage to be honest with you. i got permanent bruises on my shin cuz of that **** and i dropped a stoppie at around 25-30 and the cage is all loose now. rattles like a bitch. i have a 750 not an r6. i do speak truth, you need to read the details better bro. and i said the cage was in good shape, like no scratches & **** like that.
like i said before, 905 cages are good but mxd are better. all cages are good for the most part. ive had them all, the FI on my f4i and the 905 on my gsxr. so dont try callin my out when i havent said anything.
I Enjoy Posting At StuntLife!
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 3,558
From: cali
Originally posted by T.J THUG
I know a lot more than u think I do. I won't clown u just yet, We know who u are and what you have said and done. Keep it real and u won't have thes type of issues.............ok bro....
I know a lot more than u think I do. I won't clown u just yet, We know who u are and what you have said and done. Keep it real and u won't have thes type of issues.............ok bro....
Registered User
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 18
From: Fort Worth, Texas
Perfect Timing
Originally posted by SmurfKilla
Man that sux....Tim is building new stronger cages after I have already bought one cage and a replacement lower cage for my setup...
Bad timing on my part I guess.....
SK
Man that sux....Tim is building new stronger cages after I have already bought one cage and a replacement lower cage for my setup...
Bad timing on my part I guess.....
SK
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 8
From: Huntington Beach, Ca
it sounds like all of you are timpermental BITCHS.
back to back post ,o- I must of forget something to say,because my head is so far up my ***...........RETARDS..... step up or get lost
its all .....................FREESTYLE INGINUITY
Registered User
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 89
From: anywhere concrete
my FI cage is the old version and I was able to learn all the slow stuff with it. The cage is demolished but my bike is alright, except for one of the dog ears that connect the subframe to the main frame, but that might of been my fault.
P.O.B. Rider and F.I. Owner
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 114
From: alvarado
Oh how I wish this could end. Please hear this. Stuntlife is a business and a public forum in which free speech is limited to where you are not supposed to use harsh language, slander, ****, and to remember that Shugga makes his money from what he advertises and sells through his stores. This allows us to have this place to converse. As far as my cages and other products go, can you for one minute blame me for protecting the idea and the place I spend a lot of money to advertise. I hear the word monopoly mentioned and there seems to be a few misconceptions. When I filed for the patents I submitted a few ideas to cover my bases and the concept along with every metal and a broad write up as to what that concept is. Because of the new nature of this patent if all goes well the government will protect that idea for twenty years and any attempt or configuration to do what FI started will be an infringement on that patent. (This is NO different from you trying to start a MC Donald's without buying the rights.) It was written to cover any configuration or different designs that you have seen. One of my original designs is very similar to what you have seen made by a few other companies and there are several reasons I chose not to manufacture those designs.
#1. In the way of the riders legs.
#2. when the cage bends (and they will all bend) the bolts that hold the cage in place are bent and when you try to remove those bent bolts from a cage that is completely welded nothing gives and that bent bolt rips the aluminum out of the head or mount.
#3. We have smacked curbs when ridding and half shell cages do NOT guard the undercarriage
#4. When you bend or grind through the cage you have to replace entire cage.
#5. Does not give ample room between bike and ground in the event the rider is caught underneath.
#6. The ability to repeat in manufacturing.
#7. Does NOT guard the upper, clip on, or levers as well.
#8. To Ridged has great potential for stress cracking the frame.
#9. Not aesthetically pleasing to the average rider that just wants to protect a common street bike.
#10 Because of rear mounts of cage it has greater potential of injuring rider in a fall.
#11. I ride too and these different designs were tested here In Texas a long time ago and the current design was overall the best.
The FI cages are not without fault but every day we are working to make things better and stronger without damage to the bike or rider. I have pro's all over testing the new ideas and giving constructive and honest feed back and we have a great set up because of it. To guy's and gal's who have purchased from us we have extended great appreciation and product assistance especially when a change in manufacturing occurred.
The one thing I ask is will you quit painting this horrible picture of what FI is because right now it just a couple of guy's who had a great idea and want make a living and ride.
Thanks
Tim Barnes
817-713-7948
Please feel free to call me or email me remembering that I will receive email here first tdaddybarnes@aol.com
#1. In the way of the riders legs.
#2. when the cage bends (and they will all bend) the bolts that hold the cage in place are bent and when you try to remove those bent bolts from a cage that is completely welded nothing gives and that bent bolt rips the aluminum out of the head or mount.
#3. We have smacked curbs when ridding and half shell cages do NOT guard the undercarriage
#4. When you bend or grind through the cage you have to replace entire cage.
#5. Does not give ample room between bike and ground in the event the rider is caught underneath.
#6. The ability to repeat in manufacturing.
#7. Does NOT guard the upper, clip on, or levers as well.
#8. To Ridged has great potential for stress cracking the frame.
#9. Not aesthetically pleasing to the average rider that just wants to protect a common street bike.
#10 Because of rear mounts of cage it has greater potential of injuring rider in a fall.
#11. I ride too and these different designs were tested here In Texas a long time ago and the current design was overall the best.
The FI cages are not without fault but every day we are working to make things better and stronger without damage to the bike or rider. I have pro's all over testing the new ideas and giving constructive and honest feed back and we have a great set up because of it. To guy's and gal's who have purchased from us we have extended great appreciation and product assistance especially when a change in manufacturing occurred.
The one thing I ask is will you quit painting this horrible picture of what FI is because right now it just a couple of guy's who had a great idea and want make a living and ride.
Thanks
Tim Barnes
817-713-7948
Please feel free to call me or email me remembering that I will receive email here first tdaddybarnes@aol.com
Originally posted by TIM @ P.O.B.
Oh how I wish this could end. Please hear this. Stuntlife is a business and a public forum in which free speech is limited to where you are not supposed to use harsh language, slander, ****, and to remember that Shugga makes his money from what he advertises and sells through his stores. This allows us to have this place to converse. As far as my cages and other products go, can you for one minute blame me for protecting the idea and the place I spend a lot of money to advertise. I hear the word monopoly mentioned and there seems to be a few misconceptions. When I filed for the patents I submitted a few ideas to cover my bases and the concept along with every metal and a broad write up as to what that concept is. Because of the new nature of this patent if all goes well the government will protect that idea for twenty years and any attempt or configuration to do what FI started will be an infringement on that patent. (This is NO different from you trying to start a MC Donald's without buying the rights.) It was written to cover any configuration or different designs that you have seen. One of my original designs is very similar to what you have seen made by a few other companies and there are several reasons I chose not to manufacture those designs.
#1. In the way of the riders legs.
#2. when the cage bends (and they will all bend) the bolts that hold the cage in place are bent and when you try to remove those bent bolts from a cage that is completely welded nothing gives and that bent bolt rips the aluminum out of the head or mount.
#3. We have smacked curbs when ridding and half shell cages do NOT guard the undercarriage
#4. When you bend or grind through the cage you have to replace entire cage.
#5. Does not give ample room between bike and ground in the event the rider is caught underneath.
#6. The ability to repeat in manufacturing.
#7. Does NOT guard the upper, clip on, or levers as well.
#8. To Ridged has great potential for stress cracking the frame.
#9. Not aesthetically pleasing to the average rider that just wants to protect a common street bike.
#10 Because of rear mounts of cage it has greater potential of injuring rider in a fall.
#11. I ride too and these different designs were tested here In Texas a long time ago and the current design was overall the best.
The FI cages are not without fault but every day we are working to make things better and stronger without damage to the bike or rider. I have pro's all over testing the new ideas and giving constructive and honest feed back and we have a great set up because of it. To guy's and gal's who have purchased from us we have extended great appreciation and product assistance especially when a change in manufacturing occurred.
The one thing I ask is will you quit painting this horrible picture of what FI is because right now it just a couple of guy's who had a great idea and want make a living and ride.
Thanks
Tim Barnes
817-713-7948
Please feel free to call me or email me remembering that I will receive email here first tdaddybarnes@aol.com
Oh how I wish this could end. Please hear this. Stuntlife is a business and a public forum in which free speech is limited to where you are not supposed to use harsh language, slander, ****, and to remember that Shugga makes his money from what he advertises and sells through his stores. This allows us to have this place to converse. As far as my cages and other products go, can you for one minute blame me for protecting the idea and the place I spend a lot of money to advertise. I hear the word monopoly mentioned and there seems to be a few misconceptions. When I filed for the patents I submitted a few ideas to cover my bases and the concept along with every metal and a broad write up as to what that concept is. Because of the new nature of this patent if all goes well the government will protect that idea for twenty years and any attempt or configuration to do what FI started will be an infringement on that patent. (This is NO different from you trying to start a MC Donald's without buying the rights.) It was written to cover any configuration or different designs that you have seen. One of my original designs is very similar to what you have seen made by a few other companies and there are several reasons I chose not to manufacture those designs.
#1. In the way of the riders legs.
#2. when the cage bends (and they will all bend) the bolts that hold the cage in place are bent and when you try to remove those bent bolts from a cage that is completely welded nothing gives and that bent bolt rips the aluminum out of the head or mount.
#3. We have smacked curbs when ridding and half shell cages do NOT guard the undercarriage
#4. When you bend or grind through the cage you have to replace entire cage.
#5. Does not give ample room between bike and ground in the event the rider is caught underneath.
#6. The ability to repeat in manufacturing.
#7. Does NOT guard the upper, clip on, or levers as well.
#8. To Ridged has great potential for stress cracking the frame.
#9. Not aesthetically pleasing to the average rider that just wants to protect a common street bike.
#10 Because of rear mounts of cage it has greater potential of injuring rider in a fall.
#11. I ride too and these different designs were tested here In Texas a long time ago and the current design was overall the best.
The FI cages are not without fault but every day we are working to make things better and stronger without damage to the bike or rider. I have pro's all over testing the new ideas and giving constructive and honest feed back and we have a great set up because of it. To guy's and gal's who have purchased from us we have extended great appreciation and product assistance especially when a change in manufacturing occurred.
The one thing I ask is will you quit painting this horrible picture of what FI is because right now it just a couple of guy's who had a great idea and want make a living and ride.
Thanks
Tim Barnes
817-713-7948
Please feel free to call me or email me remembering that I will receive email here first tdaddybarnes@aol.com
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 794
From: Greenville Ohio
FI bars and such
When I was at stuntfest, the off da chain stunta boyz had FI gear, and I saw some serious tumbles from them, and they would pick up the bikes and go on, I was freaking out!
I also saw a few boyz drag the 12 bars, which might be no big deal to some of the guys on here, but where I'm from, this is a new thing, and looked really sic.
There was ONE guy there that was in Sly Dogs stunt fest that was in the advanced group, and he looped during a highchair stoppie, and if you could see the damage it did to his bike you wouldn't even thing twice about putting a cage on your bike.
I was also in Dayton Ohio, Quaker Steak and Lube, for bike night, there was 2000 bikes there, and again I saw a few FI enhanced bikes. I decided that the workmanship of the bars and cages looked really good, so I asked around and got the web site for FI. I then talked to Tim and he couldn't have been nicer about offering up advice. Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
I also saw a few boyz drag the 12 bars, which might be no big deal to some of the guys on here, but where I'm from, this is a new thing, and looked really sic.
There was ONE guy there that was in Sly Dogs stunt fest that was in the advanced group, and he looped during a highchair stoppie, and if you could see the damage it did to his bike you wouldn't even thing twice about putting a cage on your bike.
I was also in Dayton Ohio, Quaker Steak and Lube, for bike night, there was 2000 bikes there, and again I saw a few FI enhanced bikes. I decided that the workmanship of the bars and cages looked really good, so I asked around and got the web site for FI. I then talked to Tim and he couldn't have been nicer about offering up advice. Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 794
From: Greenville Ohio
FI bars and such
When I was at stuntfest, the off da chain stunta boyz had FI gear, and I saw some serious tumbles from them, and they would pick up the bikes and go on, I was freaking out!
I also saw a few boyz drag the 12 bars, which might be no big deal to some of the guys on here, but where I'm from, this is a new thing, and looked really sic.
There was ONE guy there that was in Sly Dogs stunt fest that was in the advanced group, no cage or 12 bar, and he looped during a highchair stoppie, and if you could see the damage it did to his bike you wouldn't even thing twice about putting a cage on your bike.
I was also in Dayton Ohio, Quaker Steak and Lube, for bike night, there was 2000 bikes there, and again I saw a few FI enhanced bikes. I decided that the workmanship of the bars and cages looked really good, so I asked around and got the web site for FI. I then talked to Tim and he couldn't have been nicer about offering up advice. Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
I also saw a few boyz drag the 12 bars, which might be no big deal to some of the guys on here, but where I'm from, this is a new thing, and looked really sic.
There was ONE guy there that was in Sly Dogs stunt fest that was in the advanced group, no cage or 12 bar, and he looped during a highchair stoppie, and if you could see the damage it did to his bike you wouldn't even thing twice about putting a cage on your bike.
I was also in Dayton Ohio, Quaker Steak and Lube, for bike night, there was 2000 bikes there, and again I saw a few FI enhanced bikes. I decided that the workmanship of the bars and cages looked really good, so I asked around and got the web site for FI. I then talked to Tim and he couldn't have been nicer about offering up advice. Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
Lick Tha Ballz
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 2,497
From: InTheFuckinBurbsOf, IL
Re: FI bars and such
Originally posted by ericgsxr
Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
Anybody can sell you motorcycle parts, but to call up a company and have a guy answer the phone that can ride 20 mile wheelies, and then converse with you about it for 1/2 hour, is way above and beyond the call of duty. Based on looks of the product, Tim's personable behaivior, and mostly based on watching the bikes at Sly dogs stuntfest get up again and again, I'm going to have to say FI all the way.
The pricing on the F.I. cage is the only complaint I have. But seeing how the cage can be taken off and just run the sliders,a nd all other parts being replacable make me keep leaning towards F.I.
Right now, it would really be a race between F.I. and MEtalmasters.
Liv fr PEACE prpre fr WAR
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,834
From: .
me and all my friends build our own cages and bars.....yes they do break but not really anyhting on the bike does so they do the job....so far im on my 2nd bar and 2nd or 3rd cage(cant remember)and i have spent no more than 30-40 buks for all of it combined(thx big t
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