According to my local yamaha dealer here in France, and to the yamaha website and brochures, the lower engine bars are no longer an option or available. The only others I've found that look similar are the Puig ones. Anyone have experience of those and know whether they are any good?

My bike has the Yamaha aluminium bash plate already, but I'd like to add some more protection to the engine casings and water pump. I may in fact decide to dump the bash plate and invest in the Adventure Spec one, but if the Puig bars are any good, they may get me what I want at a lower price than the AS setup.

Other option I guess is the Hepco and Becker. I see plenty of info here about those, but I didn't find anything about the Puig ones.

I have the sw motech crash bars and put them to the test yesterday on the road. Front end loss and sliding along on my side before I knew it. Apart from scratches to the crashbars and barkbusters the only easily repairable damage was the bent rear brake lever. Maybe a pivot brake lever would be better but probably would have still bent. All in all I'm impressed with the overall protection of the sw motech.
I also have sw motech pannier brackets which never touched the road, saved by the centre stand and slight graze on the rear footpeg.

Hepco Becker they r the best out there IMO cover all the parts u want covered and got with OEM bash plate not a very good pic but will give u a idea


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Comes around the bottom on the engine on the other side too coving the water pump very well. Six points of contact and has pre drilled holes for mounting driving lights


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Through many falls and tons of abuse my vote is with sw motech. Those other bars don't actually make contact in a fall. They may well protect the bike from hits on the side but in the case of a fall they are not high enough. The Yamaha plastics will hit first and then the tank and finally the crash bars.
The sw motech are incredibly well designed but are a pain in the arsenal I mean arse but arsenal will do when taking the tank of