A buddy of mine, Andy Clem, who rides on Team Controlled Insanity designed and hand fabricated this cage. pretty much blew my mind when i saw it. let me know what you think and if you would like one similar to it or somethin holler at me and ill see if he's available. :YEAH :YEAH :YEAH

 

damn son that **** looks i would rock one on the R6...but the question is dose it hold up as good as it looks

 

i would imagine, he made it "kevin" strong. especially for me, cuz i tend to crash a lot. if you look there is a ton of reinforcement on the bends and such. extra triangular stuff. plus those sliders will keep me from ever breakin a footpeg!

 

looks real strong.

 

looks pretty strong!

 

Don't look right to me for some reason

 

home made cages are the shizznit

 

yea it dose look pretty ****** solid i am sure it will hold up great



you love postin this pic up don't you old man i swear this is the 6th thread i have seen you post this pic in, in the past 3 weeks

 

its my favorite subject ....me... lol....

 

haha i was just gonna say that^^^ i see that pic everywhere. hey rog i think you still owe me some rep by the way

 

my rep privlages have been suspended.......

some thing to do with giving out rep tears a hole in time and space or some **** like that

 

did you drill a hole in your frame to bolt the cage up in the rear
or is that all tread going all the way through

 

mine goes thru the swing arm bolt ,the front is the motor mount and the bottom right side is the motor mount and the bottom left is bolted to the frame where the kick stand mount is

 

pretty sure its all thread going through the swingarm mount...

 

those sliders look like they would break pretty easy

 

is that that bedliner stuff on ur tank dent

 

no it's tool box liner ,i 3m glued it on

 

i wouldnt say best cage ever. But looks pretty strong.

 

I witnessed the cage being built and assembled......its stout!
The sliders are from solid delrin....they aren't breaking, trust me, I threw them acrossed his garage against the concrete floor, I have a similar version on my bike, and I've seen Andy pancake spreader circs with em on there.....the only damage is that they bust the bolt connecting them to the cage....you simply replace the bolt and you're riding in 2 minutes. Usually takes a pair of pliers, a new bolt, and whatever you need to thread that bolt in (large allen screw for me).

The rear mount is a peice of all-thread that goes thru the swingarm mount and is braced on a really strong peice of the frame, not braced on the weaker points of the frame like alot of the powers cages I've seen, so it doesn't fold and pinch in the frame like the bikes I've seen powers cages on.

Before we made the sliders(only part I sorta helped with....mostly watched tho, haha), we had the cage on and we laid Kevin's bike over on its side to measure how long the sliders needed to be, even without the sliders the footpegs barely touched WHEN WE FORCED the bike to roll towards the clip-ons, and we did have to FORCE it to roll over. The sliders at that point aren't really 100% necessary, but the come in real handy when you lay the bike over lightly or when dropping your bike it will slide forward....it stays kinda high and glides on the pavement to a stop on the slider, nothing else on the bike touches the ground! If you seen Andy's stunt bike, its painted with House of Kolor Kandy Yellow paint (he does that too), and other than minor rock chips his paint is in awesome shape....he even has the saem rearsets and footpegs he originally had on the bike....I've gone thru about 8 sets of rearsets on my 600rr with a 905 cage!!!

Andy's cages really are about as indestructible as cages can get.....I highly regard SI cages as the best "mass sold" cage there is, and I'm waiting for Andy to have time to make me a cage for my 600RR unless I get an F4i first! If you saw the 600RR cage he made for Nick's 600RR (i think his name on here is "600RR", I know, not real original right? haha) you would see how stout his cages are built. Only downside to Andy's cages are that he can't mass produce them with all the work he has, he also puts alot of time into em (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!!!!!) to make sure they are perfect, so they would be kind of expensive if you aren't considering it might be the last cage you buy or you like to get news bikes every now and then.....like the $300-350 range is what I would expect him to charge (not a figure he gave, but what I would expect).

 

Doesnt look bad at all honestly, but i like my Powers Cage its taking a beating and then some. Then again i dont think id rail my shins on that cage.