It is my opinion that the gear is NOT that weak. I PLANTED mine down hard a couple of times, enough to bend the LG and it was just fine. The only two times mine came out was "dumb thumbs" when I landed with too much speed and off the end of the runway into high grass and dirt mounds. This is my second plane so I am very much a rookie and the UCANDO has proven itself alot more durable than it looks. And, I have noticed as I get better at landings, it will slow to an absolute crawl and land sooooo softly. So, the gear is suitable for normal flying and landing, unless you're STL who wants to practice harrier landings with it. Which is fine, it's a great plane to do that with, but you can't expect nothing to break when you SMACK it down hard. My feeling is, even though glassing is an excellent way to add strength, and I have no doubt it's alot stronger than stock, on a very hard landing, the stress is going to move along the gear until it finds the weakest point, like the fuse sides, and split those. STL, I really do think glassing is a good idea, and you did a very nice job and will probably have no trouble, which is what you set out to accomplish anyway, but it's not unbreakable.