(10-26-2021, 02:35 PM)Pyrrho Wrote: I'm assuming the sliders are on your front fork? If so, did you observe them making contact when your bike went down? On previous RSes of mine it was a 3-point contact of cylinder head + front/rear tire, and occasionally a bar end depending on where the handlebars were positioned when it went down.
A little off thread topic, but not clear the sliders deserve a thread of their own.
Good question. The 3-point contact makes sense, but I'm usually travelling with panniers, and I'm not clear whether they are wide enough to put the fork on the pavement in a low side.
I bought the sliders primarily to give a disposable point on which the big swing arm could slide when I'm without panniers.
As regards my "test," I high-sided without panniers off a tight left-hand turn with close to 600 miles on the bike. thus taking the term, "breaking in the bike" to it's logical extreme..., so I wasn't able to see the bike and observe anything making contact, I mean other than the gravel, mud, and grass making contact with me. I had to clean out both cylinder protectors (which worked well), replace both mirrors (which are break-aways), and the right bar and bar end. (Another reason I prefer bikes with clip-ons.) If one looks carefully, one can still see the scratches on the edges of the fairing, which handled the contact better than metal parts (and a lot better than 1980s era fiberglass)y . (I usually leave a little cosmetic damage to remind me to stay a little further away from the edge.) And, yes, I found some damage to the left front fork slider, so it can contact the road in a high side - but if one ever slides an RS without panniers through a low side - for which the sliders are designed, I suspect the front fork sliders will emerge unscathed.
Also, unlike the swingarm slider, the fork sliders are a pain in the ass, because I have to carry two 13 mm wrenches to pull them when I need to remove the front wheel. If the mechanics confirm your theory, they might come off after next weeks trip to California....
"A good man always knows his limitations...."