On Point Performance

Hello, I'm Kiyakota with On Point Performance. Today we're going to be talking about stunt cages. I'll be going over protection, profile, materials, welding, mounting points, sliders, and shock absorbers. The On Point Stunt Cage will protect the upper, mid, and lower fairings. It will protect the motor, gas tank, handlebars, rear sets, s It will stay clear of your legs when you're riding. And it will allow full lean of the bike without the cage touc It has a low profile that sits tight to the bike when we design a stunt cage, we will always start with sliders as close as we can possibly get them to the bike and slowly working their way out until they offer the protection necessary and not go past that. When it comes to materials, we want to make sure t For t We utilize CNC mac Now let's talk about welding. All of our products are TIG welded, w For those of you who are not familiar with the difference between TIG and MIG, I won't get too much into the details, but just know that a TIG is the strongest weld possible. It comes at a cost of, requires a lot more time to do compared to MIG, and it requires a much more skilled welder to be able to properly do it. But in the end of the day, whenever a weld is absolutely critical and you want the best weld possible, Stunt cages typically have three mounting points, the upper motor mount, the rear swing arm, and a crossbar. In terms of the rear, there's two options. Some companies choose to go to the difference between the two is t But it comes at a cost of being a much weaker mount. We choose t It's the strongest mount on the bike and provides the most protection. For our sliders, we utilize a composite material that'strong enough to take repeated hard impacts without exploding, w Slider locations vary on every bike because every bike has different geometry, different mounting points, and therefore the cages fit differently and have to be designed specifically for that application. W For example, the 0405 Jixxer 600 cage is built in that fas There will be a slider up here and a smaller slider up there, and the crossbar will go through there. And that is the best design for catc On t If we had a slider down here, it would actually help want to over rotate the bike. And we need to have a slider up here to actually catch the weight of t And so you will see that our crossbar is also located here. We have found that is also a much better location for t Let me show you when the bike goes down what I mean. So there is your initial We want the bike to stay And everyt Now if t If it is going fast enough, it is going to want to roll. That is where the other slider and our subcage is going to come into effect. T It will just slide. These bikes were not designed to have cages mounted to them or to take repeated hard These were designed for racing. They have very lightweight frames that are prone to cracking and are overall weak. Therefore, we utilize shock absorption to keep those impact forces off the bike. We linked up with a suspension company that builds off-road race shocks and we work with them to develop a material that we can utilize to handle the weight of a bike falling at speed or from a wheelie. There is a couple of other companies that have attempted to do shock absorption. They use a spring and we feel that is not adequate. The reason for that is that a spring is not a shock absorber. A spring is designed to set ride height. There is a shock absorber to actually handle impact forces and shocks. They typically use air, gas or a fluid or a composite material. While this may look It will compress at a progressive rate, similar to an air or gas shock or even oil. It will keep the impact forces off the bike significantly better than any spring could ever do. With all that in mind, we need to still make sure the cage looks good. We follow the lines of the bike. We try to stay as close to it as possible. And ultimately we try to make this look You will notice that when the bike goes down, the only t And that is also a major difference between our product and competitors that feel it is acceptable for cage tubing to actually scrape the ground, ruin fresh powder coat and actually gouge into the metal of the cage when the bike goes down. On our cages, if you have fresh powder, that powder will remain fresh. And I have to say, it looks sexy.