Manufacturers "slide kits"

[2up]

Why don't manufacturers offer a "slide kit" as an extra? A trim kit you can buy to add to the scooter so in the unfortunate circumstances it gets slid down the ride, instead of having to replace body panels etc you just replace the slide kit. Like edgings to the running boards, fairings and side panels etc.
Just bored and my imagination is buzzing at the mo.....

[pikey]

Why would you when you can sell replacement panels would spoil the look I think

[gn2]

So you bolt on an manufacturer's expensive blingy slide kit and slide down the road.
Do you renew the damaged slide kit or ride around with it damaged and looking awful?
Best bet is don't buy a slide kit and don't crash.

[Gerard C]

To me it would make sense to provide some form of sacraficial strip at vulnerable points. Whether this would be in Chrome or colour matched material is a moot point. As someone who was taken by surprise by the weight of my 650 Burgman when moving the thing around with consequent scratches on the edge of one leg shield, I would have liked something at that point.

My fault I know - through inexperience but I know plenty of others who have done the same.

[2up]

I wasn't on about tarting the thing up with "bling" more a case of colour matched sacrificial parts as Gerard says. The edges of the legshields and footboards are vulnerable to scraping through a gateway for example.

The subject was mentioned somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" anyway.

[TmaX9]

Sacrificial strips would be OK for light scrapes against walls etc, but there is nothing substantial behind the panels in the places that take the impact to attach really useful bumpers to. The panels would still get broken if not scraped.

[MrGrumpy]

The Aprilia Atlantic had some puny looking crash bars at the front wheel arch. They shook if you blew hard in their general direction, but when I did drop the overweight barge, there wasn't any panel damage, so maybe I'm doing them an injustice....

[frankiej1949]

Could always fit some stabilisers

[Waldorf]

My experience with Fehlings bars on my X9s is that it is neither 'crash-bar' material nor very good chrome.
Mine had a tendency to discolour (rust) round the joints and bolt-holes but that was preventable with judicious smears of Vaseline.
A scootering friend had a set on his big Burger and had it all rechromed properly - it cost him, if my memory serves me correctly, around £400 including one or two other bits.

[horobags]

pan europeans, and bmw 1200 have body protection for dropsies, so why cant maxi's, but then again a new pan costs twice as much as a most maxi's.