Hi Guys, I just picked up my first bike -- 2000 CBR F4 (obviously). The bike is in great shape (<5k miles) and I want to keep it that way so I was looking into frame sliders. The only ones I have found for the F4 require the use of a hole saw in the fairing -- not exactly what I wanna do to my nice plastics. A buddy of mine has an R6 though and got a frame slider kit that used a bracket to relocate the frame slider out of a cooling duct in the fairing. No holes to cut in the fairing at all. My question is, does anyone know of a kit for our bikes like this? I would like to know. If not, I might try producing my own. Thanks.

Now i am gonna try to include some pics of my bike... here goes.

 

Have to cut them no getting around it. It is very easy to do there is a how to on here. And the no cut sliders are use less they are not strong enough. If you went down they would snap off and would not save your fairings at all.

 

Damn... well then. Is there one brand better than another?

 

Heard vortex are good. I dont know what mine are I got them from ebay, they look awesome. They are carbon fiber with metal on the ends, but if you do get some the metal ones I heard arent as good as the delrin ones because if you go down and slide the metal ones dont slow you down and the delrin ones do. Hope this helped.

 

here are mine, you can kinda see them.

 

I went with the vortex frame sliders, and yes you have to cut the fairing. It was not hard by it was worth it. Here is a pic of the finished product. Vortex are good, because you have an aluminum base and the puck then fits on to that. So if you crash and smash up the puck, all you have to do is replace the puck.

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I bought a set of "no-cut" sliders for my 99 f4. EAsy to install and seem to be made out of good materials. The set ran me about $50.

 

whats the company? Any links or pics?

 

I will get pics on here today.........I think they are called T-Rex sliders.

 

Sorry the pics to so long but I got busy at work and forgot to download them.