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Old 07-06-2007 | 09:54 AM
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Default RE: GST Roll Cage

I purchased a VG cage for my Genesis about a year ago. It is definitely heavy duty, but it is also heavy weight. It has suffered through numerous 4+ feet upside-down on concrete crashes with no deformation. But on a recent outing I managed to do an endo at full throttle, which bent the cage into more of a parallelogram shape. Because of the way it mounts to the front and back bulkheads, it put a lot of pressure on the mounting screws, which eventually bent and stripped out and cracked the plastic upper frame braces. I replaced the braces and bent the cage back into shape, but the next time I flipped the truck on a jump, even though it was minor, the cage bent again. My conclusion is that it is a great cage that will protect the truck through numerous crashes, but once it is bent, it will cause other things to break too. If it had a way of attaching to the metal frame along the midsection of the truck, it would be perfect. I think the RC Solutions cage would work better, but it looks like you would have to take it off just to get access to anything:
http://r-cstore.com/store/product_in...84aa0dd6b6327f