Holy thread resurrection, Batman
My 06 S model came with R&Gs fitted when I bought it. I was sceptical about how effective they would be, but then after I'd had the bike for a year, it rolled off the side stand and went down on the road. The crash bungs took the brunt, which meant no damage at all to engine cases, fairing, plastics etc.
The sum total of the damage was: toe peg of gear lever snapped (welded back on for a fiver), scraped crash bung (trimmed clean with a craft knife), scuff to bar-end weight and one cracked indicator lens (superglued back together). Without the bungs it would have been quite costly. In my view, they're worth the money for minimising the damage caused by this kind of incident alone.