Trackbike Progress
As I touched on in my earlier post I recently purchased the race fairings for both of them and am working hard to have them both track ready by the beginning of April. Everything is progressing nicely but isn’t going as fast as I would really like it to go. I guess that happens when you’re trying to do things on a budget! lol
Anyway I’ve heard quite a lot about the 2006-2007 R6’s catching fire on the track and finally came across a video of it happening. The problem lies in the way Yamaha designed the tank; it sticks out farther than the frame and because it’s so think it only takes a second for the asphalt to grind right through it.
Most of the race organizations have (or will) release new rules for the ‘06-07 R6 and make it mandatory that the bikes have tank sliders to keep something like this from happening. Traxxion Dynamics has released what I consider the best tank slider for the R6… one more thing that I’ve got to buy.
Traxxion Dynamics R6 Tank Sliders
Tags: R1, R6, Track Bike, Traxxion Dynamics
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10:57 pm on March 4th, 2008
Tank guards would NOT have saved that bike from catching fire. The tank split on impact, sparks from any other part of the bike scraping the pavement ignited the fuel. Traxxion tanksliders would have been useless in the above vid.
8:38 am on March 5th, 2008
I’ve watched the video numerous times and can’t see a split in the tank. If the impact did cause the tank to dent and crack (vice being ground through) which is completely plausible then there is a good chance that the Traxxion sliders would have prevented that by spreading the impact across a larger surface area.
I’m not saying you’re right or wrong; I’m just playing devils advocate. Any protection is good protection in my opinion. Since you don’t like the Traxxion product what would you recommend?
10:31 am on March 14th, 2008
I agree that tank sliders would have saved the bike