eckdawg5

Has anyone had a problem with cornering clearance with a crash cage? Last summer, on 2 separate occasions, I touched the cage to the ground while cornering. Scariest ****. Both times, both the wheels came up and almost sent me for a highside. I don't have body work and so I'm looking for a new cage that isn't as wide and would have great cornering clearance. Any suggestions?

Righteous 1

Sick Innovations or Tygershark.....best clearance cages on the market.

-SKETCHY-

Sick Innovations, you can corner just fine.

this pic is off the sick website

georgeeboy

^^wtf never seen that before!

eckdawg5

thanks for the visual sketch

csiamanis

When I lived in So.IL. I drug a knee a few times with my SI...

FIRECRACKER

Sick Innovations by far.... got one for my guy and we hit the clovers on the DAILY

inolen

I know my Tygershark cage has much more clearance than an SI, and I'm pretty sure my boy Jay (DirtyToes on here) can scrape the Tygershark cage in corners. Guess it depends on how hard you take it.

T'RIC'KY

My SI offers alot of ground clearance, never had any issues with it touching the ground!

kj

I'd think if you have much more clearance than an SI, your gonna bust the stator cover on a hard hit.

The stock footpegs touch the ground b4 the cage does on an SI... the next closest part of the bike to touch is the stator cover.

I've never run a tygershark but if there's that much more clearance, common sense tells me your stator is in danger.

inolen

I had an MXD and I'd always hit the piece that connects the bottom bar to the side. I seem to remember hitting the same piece when locking up the brake on Scott's bike with an SI.

It's not a matter of side clearance, they're comparable.

It's that the start of the Tygershark cage is higher up vertically than other cages from where it doesn't connect side to side.

Standupnfall

Might want to tell us what cage you had, that you were scraping

kj

Yea... that's exactly what I mean. The part of the SI that hits first is the part that goes in front of the stator, then connects to the bottom cross bar.

Idk... looking at my bike, if that piece wasn't there, i'd be touching covers on hard hits.

inolen

I said it quite clearly. I owned and MXD full cage that I did it on all the time, and I'm pretty positive I hit Scott's and complained while riding his bike with an SI.

Regardless, you can scrape any cage was my point.

Run race rails if you want the best clearance with decent protection.

Standupnfall

Yes you did, thank you, I was talking to the thread starter. "My cage hits, but I wont tell you what kind it is"

inolen

Doh

Sorry, my guard was up for all the SI pitbulls I figured my response would bring out

eckdawg5

It's a Powers Crash Cage and it says "Cage It" on it


^^^^this is the side I scuffed, don't know if you can see it.

Standupnfall

Yeah that must be one of the earliest ones, It is huge, You could scrape that on your roadtest. Get rid of that and get an SI or something else

eckdawg5

yeah i've had it for about 3 years and it was my dad that bought it because my mom lowsided my bike and broke the engine casing.
...that's what you get for letting your mom borrow your bike...even though she's endorsed and it was mother's day...
and i got sick of replacing plastic, i spent $1200 on plastics when the wind got under my cover and blew it over...

REVLIMIT

That is a big headlight O_o haha