Highway pegs/sliders question

[metallyguitarded_imp]

I am late to the discussion but I just ran across these engine guards and wonder if anyone has any experience with them. It looks as if it would be pretty easy to clamp some highway pegs on to them.

http://japan.webike.net/products/21798886.html

Thank you

Interesting geosar. No experience with them at all and haven't seen anyone on the forum who's running them yet. As mounting points for highway pegs, they may work just fine. As far as engine protection, I have my concerns. Possibly unfounded, but concerns nonetheless. It appears that with the mounting points so close together on the upright portion of the frame, it wouldn't distribute the force of any impact very well and those bolts would shear off. Again, simply an impression from looking at them. I'd want to find some reviews on them, if possible, before ruling them out.

MTC, what did you ever decide to go with? Lengthening the bolts on sliders and adding washers is probably not a good idea. For very much the same reason as I wrote above. Fortunately, there are plenty of articles reviewing the various slider manufacturers and examples of sliders that fail and those that do the job well. In a crash, there can and probably will be a tremendous amount of force at the location where the slider connects to the frame. Too strong of a connection, and your frame can actually be bent by the slider. Too weak, and of course, failure to do the job. The technology of some of the top end sliders is really pretty good with just enough flex in the connection and integrity of the puck (or whatever it's called). I would think that extending the slider would lessen their ability to do the intended job.