Showing posts with label salvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salvation. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2012

Woodcraft rearsets

After the wind recently wrapped its gusty claw around my ZX6R and mercilessly slammed it to the ground, I was short one intact, brake-side rearset. I did some research, and determined that the best value for the dollar was a Woodcraft rearset kit. Goodbye brittle, candy-cane OEM rearset, hello billet 6061--T6 (what?) aluminum rearsets!

If you are willing to reuse your stock foot pedals (and if Enemy Wind didn't bustify them), you can bag the rearset kit for a bit over $200. That's not chump change, but good luck finding equivalent quality for the price. Also, I opted to buy a 2007 ZX6R kit for my 2006 because the 2007s are black (and go quite well with my ZX's black frame).

Cue dramatic image:

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My two-ride review:

Pros
  1. Amazing price (if you re-use your stock pedals)
  2. Strong as hell
  3. Do not fold up like OEM pegs; so they double as frame sliders
  4. Gnarled peg has crazy grip
  5. Simple
Cons
  1. You can't try a different peg position without unbolting the rearset entirely
  2. Minimally adjustable
  3. Pegs are higher and more rear-set; Less comfortable
  4. No hookup for the brake light switch