{"id":9878,"date":"2014-07-21T21:32:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T11:34:49","slug":"rg-crash-testing-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/rg-crash-testing-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"R&G: CRASH TESTING SO YOU DON\u2019T HAVE TO"},"content":{"rendered":"

R&G is dedicated to creating world-leading products to protect motorcycles from all forms of damage and has just released a\u00a0video\u00a0that demonstrates just how far it goes to develop and perfect its range.<\/p>\n

The Hampshire-based firm\u2019s\u00a0Aero Crash Protectors<\/em>\u00a0may have already won industry and consumer media awards and its\u00a0Engine Case Covers<\/em>\u00a0were recently approved for use in racing within the British Superbike championship and AMA-sanctioned events, but that doesn\u2019t stop the Company striving to improve these products.<\/p>\n

Celebrating its 15th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday in 2014, R&G began trialing some new materials and construction methods for these two leading products from its range at the beginning of the year. Having satisfactorily conducted all of its bench testing at its Alton R&D facility on these possible upgrades, a true, \u2018real world\u2019 result was needed which called for a field test of the products – on a brand new Honda CBR500R purchased by R&G.<\/p>\n

With just two miles registering on the clock of the popular machine, the bike was taken to a private airfield in England, selected for having an extremely abrasive surface. The plan was for the professional stunt rider to execute two controlled, lowside crashes at 15mph and 35mph.<\/p>\n

\"R&G-1\"<\/p>\n

Multiple cameras were used to document the testing, showing how the products performed during the crash and then the items and the bike were returned to R&G for further examination to see if the changes to the products represented the direction of development required.<\/p>\n

The rider wasn\u2019t hurt in the video but the Honda was given the following day off to rest.<\/p>\n

Simon Hughes<\/strong>, R&G Managing Director, said: \u201cIt probably sounds insane to crash a brand new bike on purpose, but sometimes that\u2019s what is required for us to push our products further. It is true that no two crashes are the same, but this exercise \u2013 along with supporting a host of racers, teams and schools around the world who give us constant feedback \u2013 is the sort of activity that underlines what the Company is about and is why tens of thousands of riders across the globe trust R&G to protect their bike. I\u2019m just pleased I wasn\u2019t there to witness it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information on R&G\u2019s products, visit\u00a0www.rg-racing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"R&G-2\"<\/p>\n

\"R&G-3\"<\/p>\n

\"R&G-4\"<\/p>\n

\"R&G-5\"<\/p>\n

\"R&G-6\"<\/p>\n

\"R&G-7\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British firm goes to extreme lengths to develop its award-winning range of products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[23,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9902,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}