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!