I get about 200km's from mine in the week if i'm lucky. Maybe 280km's on long rides. Think I need to stop twisting my wrist as far.

Sounds about right for the standard tank, Petenz and I have 22.5ltr Gilli-moto tanks.

Ahhh, that'll explain it.

Side note Brad, recognised your bike on my commute this morning. I was on the black XTR in toowong. Your white XTR looks brilliant on the knobies.

Haha cool! Yeah saw you at the lights at Taringa, then lost you at Toowong Village I was heading down Coro way...

I've seen you out before in that area... 1 of few XTs I've actually seen out and about!

Yeah the knobbies are good but really noisy! Probs gonna put the tourances back on soon for a while as I just picked up a WR250f that I'll be using for the dirt.

You done much to yours ? Seemed at a glance you still had stock pipes? Chuck on some slip ons its like a new bike!

Mine absolutely rips now with slip ons, power commander V, custom map, DNA stage 1&2... its like a new bike.

Google pro cycle dyno - they are in slacks creek, talk to Freddy tell him you have bike like mine and they can sort everything for you =) He just did all the Air Filter/ Mapping for me about a month ago. He has my stock WR this week... can't wait to get it back and see how much better it is!

Sidenote - I took the XTR to the RTCB at Beaudessert the weekend before last... Had quite a few "confused" looks from people when was out on the short loop. Had a good stack in the mud... but got her around! Think I'll keep on the fire trails and away from the single track on the XT haha...

So in response to the initial reason for starting this thread...

Again thanks to everyones comments and input.

It really was a fairly simple fix. I am still puzzled that OTR would not provide this solution with the bash plate as shipped.

I simple purchased some tiny rubber washers/ O-rings (refer pic attached). I think it cost me about $3 for 16 of them (just in case). Also purchased a cheap sheet of stick on rubber (also in the picture attached) from clark rubber.

In a nutshell just place the rubber between plate and the frame (the inside of the bash plate) and whoooola. I'd say it reduced vibration noise by about 80-90%. You can still notice it slightly at idle, but its hardly an issue. Before I could here it over the exhaust while revving pretty hard!

another pic...

bash plate
 

Hi Petenz. I have a metal mule 2 in 1 system and bash plate on my bike. I did want the XTZ bashplate with crash bars but the shop i was looking at said that it won't fit the XTR. So does it fit and how much trouble was it?

Hyde Racing Bash plate
 

Just unloaded my DR and bought a new xt660r,
has anyone tried the Hyde Racing bash plate?