I'm with you there!!!! That's why I'll be getting EVO's after I've beat the hell out of my factory ones:thumb:The issue I'd have here is that I have yet to hear one, not one, owner of the EVO Sliders say there sliders took damage. As others have said... "they are bomb proof." So I'm hesitant to put my hard earned money toward some thing that was getting damaged and bent, Even if they may protect the body. I still don't want the actual slider to look like crap.