Motrax Top Blocks Crash Protectors Kit

...crash protectors are made my Motrax who do all sort of accessories for bikes, These crash protectors come either on their own (as shown in picture) or as part of a race kit, which includes bar ends and foot pegs. The RRP is around £80 for the frame protectors alone. This may seem expensive, but bare in mind that a new fairing will cost over twice that, so your money will be well spent. If the bike goes down, the crash protectors do their job. If ...
...what you paid for them. It’s a not brainer isn’t it?

I speak from experience having ‘tested’ these crash protectors on more than one occasion, and I can safely say they saved both my bike and me from serious damage. More importantly, my right leg would have probably been damaged had they not been in place. The bike they were mounted to was a Suzuki sv650s. On the SV, they are mounted through the frame mounting ... more

You may or may not be familiar with the concept of frame sliders, crash protectors, crash bungs, mushrooms, call them what you will. If you take a motorbike off its stand and let go, it will fall over. Motorcycles, like bicycles, need the gyroscopic stability offered by their rotating wheels to remain upright. They are inherently unstable, and will fall over easily, with or without you. You may be manoeuvring your 190kg bike out of the garage and lose your balance, you may be travelling down the road when someone pulls out on you and have to make an emergency manoeuvre. You may get carried away on a track day and find the limit of the tyres’ grip and or your ability. It doesn’t really matter how it happens, the chances are it will happen at some point, and when it does you will be left with a fairly hefty repair bill/insurance write off. Due to the cost of spares nowadays, I’m convinced that these frame protector make good sense. Add to that the fact that a lot of people only hold TPF+T insurance, they seem to make even more sense (If your bike goes down and it’s your fault, you pay the damage)

These crash protectors are made my Motrax who do all sort of accessories for bikes, These crash protectors come either on their own (as shown in picture) or as part of a race kit, which includes bar ends and foot pegs. The RRP is around £80 for the frame protectors alone. This may seem expensive, but bare in mind that a new fairing will cost over twice that, so your money will be well spent. If the bike goes down, the crash protectors do their job. If it doesn’t you can sell them and recover most of what you paid for them. It’s a not brainer isn’t it?

I speak from experience having ‘tested’ these crash protectors on more than one occasion, and I can safely say they saved both my bike and me from serious damage. More importantly, my right leg would have probably been damaged had they not been in place. The bike they were mounted to was a Suzuki sv650s. On the SV, they are mounted through the frame mounting bolts with spacers. On some bikes they are attached to the aluminium frame with clamps. You may think, ‘I don’t want great big bungs sticking out of my bike’. Well after a while you won’t even notice them, and neither will anyone else, but you will be grateful they’re there should the worst happen.

In my accident, a driver pulled out from a side road, I swerved to avoid him, and he stopped just too late. The crash protector entered his light, my bike stopped, and yours truly did a superman impression over the bonnet and landed in the road. The crash protector was bent, and the fairing slightly damaged, but the engine was fine, and the frame undamaged. I’m sure that had they not been fitted, the bike would have been written off, and my right leg would have been in hospital in a cast. As it was, I continued my journey by car, shaken but in one piece.

If you ride a motorbike, you should have some of these fitted. If you are thinking of doing a track day, get some of these first (and some new tyres to boot). They really are quality items.

 

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