DIY Frame Sliders

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I'm looking into frame sliders for my bike and getting the feeling that they seem really expensive for what they are. There is a machine shop at my work and I'm thinking I can get the guys to spin me up something cool looking on the lathe out of aluminum and then bolt them in place. I ride an ER6-n so it's not like I'm going to have to make fancy brackets to avoid fairings.

Does anyone have any cautionary tales or a reasons I shouldn't make them myself?
 
how about hockey pucks.
 
They sell Delrin cylinders at brafacso for like 10 bucks a piece....they also sell heilicoil kits....go and get it, insert the heilicoil and bolt it to the frame...

wayyyy cheaper than some thing else....if you crash you will have to do it again cause they won't last more that once.....but the price justifies it
 
lol from what OP has described. not only will his frame slider not protect his frame. it will for sure destroy it. there's a reason sliders are made of plastic and not metal.
 
SkyRider said:
lol from what OP has described. not only will his frame slider not protect his frame. it will for sure destroy it. there's a reason sliders are made of plastic and not metal.
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some people need to learn the hard way. kinda like the guy who didnt have 100 bucks for a tow and ended up frying his engine
 
The pucks are the cheap parts. You're paying for the rest of the hardware. Woodcraft frameslider pucks are only like $14.
 
woot said:
I'm looking into frame sliders for my bike and getting the feeling that they seem really expensive for what they are. There is a machine shop at my work and I'm thinking I can get the guys to spin me up something cool looking on the lathe out of aluminum and then bolt them in place. I ride an ER6-n so it's not like I'm going to have to make fancy brackets to avoid fairings.

Does anyone have any cautionary tales or a reasons I shouldn't make them myself?
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OP this is actually not a bad idea at all. Just make sure you have a thick wall on those sliders - and don't make them too long either.

If you have access to a machine shop....you can always purchase some Delrain plastic in tubular form and bore out the middle. Leave some structure behind so that the bolt+washer has something to mash up aganist.



sid_for_speed said:
They sell Delrin cylinders at brafacso for like 10 bucks a piece....they also sell heilicoil kits....go and get it, insert the heilicoil and bolt it to the frame...

wayyyy cheaper than some thing else....if you crash you will have to do it again cause they won't last more that once.....but the price justifies it
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Why does the OP need a heli-coil kit?



OP: you will need longer bolts...make sure you get a grade 8 (or metric equiv) atlest....last thing you want is a lower grade bolt which would snap off .
You want to mount the slider on a solid structural surface like a motor mount - axle etc etc...


WarpTiger said:
how about hockey pucks.
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FAIL! Hockey pucks don't have the structure density and abrasion resistant qualities required for a frame slider...


SkyRider said:
lol from what OP has described. not only will his frame slider not protect his frame. it will for sure destroy it. there's a reason sliders are made of plastic and not metal.
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There are companies out there that make frame sliders out of aluminum - which are not the best things to use....Good Advise...make them out of a plastic....
 
They're so cheap on ebay or Kapsco. I wont waste my time fibricating unless its for hobby

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Ya, that's why I why asking the question and not just going ahead with something I wasn't sure of. For the most part all of the sliders I've seen have plastic knobs on them but on Ebay or somewhere else along the way I saw some made of just metal so I wasn't sure and didn't want to **** up my bike worse then if there was nothing.

Thanks everyone for the input.

There's lots of UHMH hangin around my work so I'll likely grab a piece of that
 
not wasting my time. I'm having other's waste the companies time. Also The guys in the shop are members of the CAW so whether they are doing work for me or not they are generally wasting time.
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