I am so happy with the crash bars, and not trusting of the small OEM skid plate, that I ended up the black steel heed skid plate too. Buying Heed again, helped me be sure it's a good fit with my Heed bunker bars.
I got the steel because I'm cheap, and only after I received it I realised it is
significantly heavier than the small aluminium oem plate. But no worries, first thing I did was check if can pop a wheelie, and I'm happy to say that I feel no difference in riding or wheelies with the heavier plate
I guess that what will suffer most the additional plate + bars weight (I think they are at least 10 kilos together), is the suspension. I've already blown a fork seal once, when bottoming out, I guess I'll have to dial up the compression damping whenever off-roading to avoid further issues.
Today for the first time I also measured the sag setting on both front and rear, and discovered as others have that I need full preload on both, and still am not on the 30% sag point (I was hoping the bike will think I'm 75 kilos, even though the scales show closer to 90 with gear
). Perhaps some day I'll get stiffer springs, if I feel issues.
Here are a few pics of the bash plate from all sides, so you get to see what it looks like installed and compared to OEM.
While I was at it (i.e. the careless paypal buying button
it), I bought myself a pair of heed bar bags too...
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