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Originally Posted by
statik
I was asked by someone starting out Green laneing about extras for the bike. This is what I told him and he saw a fellow rider go down with all the toys on his bike. It was towed home due to a very monor fall. Hope it helps.
Don't fit crash bars to your bike if your coming green laneing. They catch on things and pull you off. Things go wrong very suddenly so keep the bike as smooth as possible. If it falls over with crash bars the bike will dig into the dirt and break. You want it to slide and there is less damage. There is less chance of getting hooked by the bike as it goes over a cliff. Your better off watching it slide away from you. Appart from hand guards forget the after-market crap, it's just for the movies mate.
A bit of foam rubber on the tank in the nut-bag area can be a good idea.
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I'd say that was a good point - not quite sure why you'd want crash bars,
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Originally Posted by
Keithblade
Good point but a sumpm guard maust be a 'must have'!
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Especially with the pipes routing under the bike - never understood why Yamaha made this change from the XT to the XT-R, the Z has the pipes going the correct way, and my TTR (the sort of XT stop-gap, but better spec'd) has the pipes taking the riight route too.......
Without a bash plate you really do run the risk of crushing the pipes on a rough bit of crushed rock - I had my TTR balancing on it's bash plat ethe other week!!!!