Here's the drop video! We had quite a few smaller videos so I did my best to edit the best of them together. Forgive my editing skills, though. I'm using a free video editer so it may be a tad choppy. Also, an initial note, if this bike goes over hard enough with the cages installed it will ding the mirrors (as you can see in the video). Normally during real-world drops, the bike doesn't just fall over like this though. Most of the time, the rider is on the bike and slows the drop which will keep the bike from rolling over and hitting the mirrors. The only time the mirrors will hit is during an unrestricted drop like you see in the video.
In order to stop the bike from going over that far, the bars would have had to be further out from the bike by quite a bit and just looked way too weird when we mocked them up. We figured a single replacement mirror was a small price to pay if the bars could protect all other parts of the bike which it does very well. This guard is extremely stout and took a bunch of unrestricted drops from straight up without breaking or bending whatsoever. I believe we dropped the bike a good 6-8 times, one after the other and the bars performed extremely well.
In addition to the drop video, I'm also including the short videos of the guards being installed and removed. These videos show how quickly the guard can be removed and reinstalled once the interior brackets are installed. This is essentially our version of a "quick-release".
Drop Video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1_KKSb18AQuick Release Removal -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYMm_omfHgQuick Release Reinstall -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IBLSv3nz9M