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.

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

Ahhh, that'll explain it.

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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.

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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...

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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!

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another pic...

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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?

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