Best Tube Doors?
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07-23-2009, 08:22 PM
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07-23-2009, 08:56 PM
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I have the Rancho tube doors. I use the Mopar mirror and bracket that mounts to the windshield for a mirror when I go doorless or use the tube doors.
I think they look cool, but I don't think I would purchase tube doors if I had to do it over again. I feel like I'm getting into the tea cups at disney world with them. I'd rather just ride without doors entirely or have used the ~$300 toward a set of factory half doors (fingers crossed).
On the plus side, they did save my carbon fiber downhill bike helmet from rolling out of the passenger floor board and on to the asphalt once when I took a corner too fast. That incident alone saved me the cost of the tube doors.
I think they look cool, but I don't think I would purchase tube doors if I had to do it over again. I feel like I'm getting into the tea cups at disney world with them. I'd rather just ride without doors entirely or have used the ~$300 toward a set of factory half doors (fingers crossed).
On the plus side, they did save my carbon fiber downhill bike helmet from rolling out of the passenger floor board and on to the asphalt once when I took a corner too fast. That incident alone saved me the cost of the tube doors.
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P.S I think out 4 doors look better with the door surrounds taken off when the doors are removed. Don't know if you know that they come off.
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07-24-2009, 08:34 AM
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07-25-2009, 07:20 AM
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I also bought the storage bags which needed reworked so they lined up properly. The supposed internal arm pads are a joke and when I get some time I'll rework those as well.
In all I can't say that I am disappointed but of all the tube doors I've seen out there none are what I would call a premium product.
07-25-2009, 08:47 AM
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That's a rather wholesale damning of the entire product group, and makes me wonder exactly what your complaints were about specific products. Is it in fact a quality issue, or a feature issue, or some combo of both? Have you, indeed, been able to inspect all brands of available doors? Personally, I think my OR Fab doors are very well built and great looking--but maybe they're just not your cup of tea. I've not looked very closely at any other brands, so can't say one-way or the other whether they have problems (though I know that at least a couple of the companies do have problems with other products that I could easily see flowing over into their tube door lines).