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Good looking and Flexible
After a cold tire lowside destroyed the OEM fairings on my Honda CBR600rr trackday bike I was looking for replacement plastic. I'd heard a lot of negatives about Chinese built aftermarket fairings, mostly that they weren't flexible so they'd crack on installation and explode on impact, and also that the paint quality wasn't great. But for a track bike I thought I'd take a chance based on price. I was still trying to figure out who to buy from when I tripped over a discount code for Monster fairings. Research suggested that Monster was the best of the offshore brands but were a bit more expensive, but given the discount code the price gap was narrowed enough that I thought I'd try the better rated Monsters. Expedited shipping (to Canada) was offered for a premium price but it was still the off-season so I declined and went with the free shipping option. The fairings actually arrived within the time frame promised for expedited shipping so I'm glad I saved my money on this. Packaging was well done and none of the parts were damaged or scuffed. The paint looks amazing. There were maybe 2 small runs in the clearcoat, but I think unless you were the person doing the installation you'd never have seen them. Much better than what I was lead to believe I would be getting. Next came installation. You do need to be a bit handy to do this well but I think this caveat goes for any aftermarket fairings and is my experience with high priced race glass as well. However in the process of installing, particularly with the tail on the CBR600 you have to flex the panels a LOT and I kept waiting to hear the 'crack' that I was warned of. Well no such crack happened. The parts were all as flexible as you needed them to be to do the installation. Furthermore, on my local track there are a few off-camber downhill corners where I've managed to drag the lowers on both sides, so they are scuffed from hitting the asphalt, but there has been no cracking as a result of those impacts, a far cry from the 'exploding' plastic I was warned of. I will point out that some of the small black ABS accessory bits didn't fit as well as I'd hoped, but I had most of the OEM ones from the crashed bodywork so I reused them where I could. Overall I am very happy with these fairings and would recommend them.

