Placed my order on the 16/04/08 and after 6 wks, several international calls and several emails I have had to cancel the order out of shear frustration. They did not even have the decency to respond to my cancellation email, so, I call yet again. They have no record of the order # or my name! I imagine that means the order was actually cancelled however on the website it is still listed as being processed. If any of the dear members on here have contact with RG-Racing (More than the regular punter). Please let them know that I Edward Wheatley (order No. 8323) think their service absolutley sucks! It's a free world (no its not!) but if you are old fashioned and expect some degree of customer service then I would seriously think twice before purchasing their products!

Maybe a lucky escape.

I dont fit R&G anymore. I dont really worry about the bike falling off the stand type of accident. New plastics are quite cheap from KTM, levers and Jap plastic commonly available on e bay.

I have seen numerous trackbikes slide up the road without major damage. I have also seen several flip because of the crash bungs fitted. These are always totalled when they get picked up.

My mate Bob was unluckier still. He fell off at Paddock Hill. Which is a pretty long way to slide. He reached the gravel before the bike. Trouble is the crash bung flipped the bike on the kerbing. The bike hit him in the back and broke several ribs through his back protector.

He was 71 at the time. Silly old bugger is 75 this year and still out every weekend on his Fireblade or SP2.

He fell of again this February on a diesel soaked road. I dropped my SD at a standstill in my rush to help him. No big deal not even a broken mirror or brake lever. What had snapped off was the R&G bung the previous owner had fitted to my 05 SD. Not only that, the other side unwound itself and fell off as I rode the bike home.

Worse still, this is the set that replace the front engine mounting. So when I got home. I noticed that the engine was now hanging free on one side as the bolt had worked its way back through. I should have taken photographs and sent them to R&G but didnt think of it at the time.

Now I can forgive the bung for not saving the engine casing or panel. I would be less charitable if the engine had been damged by running out of alignment on the ride home. I put the KTM engine mounting bolt back in.

Bob recovered (knocked out, broken ribs again, broken collarbone) and was back on his bike in a couple of months. Mind you, he is a tough old bast*rd ex paratrooper who only gave up parachuting in his 50's after breaking something in his back. He took up sports bikes and crashing instead!

Looks like I got lucky. Fast service and everything works as it should. I am yet to test the crash protection and hope I will not do so. Got say I am not convinced it will save anything other than a low speed crash.

Crash protection or not? I have also watched race bikes get flipped by crash protection. My observatiuon is the lower the protection is the less chance of a flip. I have not got a technical explaination for this. Its jus t my observation. I suffered a lowersider this past Monday and the crash protection I have mounted directly on modified engine casings kepted the bike ridable for the second race of the day. from Currently nothing for the SD at the moment To answer my own question. The right protection low down on the bike can be very effective.

Sorry for the slightly OT nature of the post.

Why not get some ? They look great and seem to be very well made.

The deal on the bungs is finished but I ordered mine only 2 weeks ago and they were prepared to give me the deal price anyway.

Once that's sorted get the Rizoma tail tidy.