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The original sump guard seems strong enough and it butts up against the engine guards, making it very sturdy indeed. Time will tell if its up to the job. Has anyone had one of these fail, and be bashed right in?
I gave my missus the windscreen, because it interferes with my chest camera view., and besides, we dont go that fast anyway
Will probably be ok. Its only plastic though. It doesn't protect the cases at all but I guess your crash guards will help a lot there.

You don't need to go that fast before the noise from the wind will make you deaf on a long trip. Even with ear plugs !

I broke my screen and had ringing in my ears after a few weeks of riding. I never ride more than 90kmh.
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Did you say the bash plate is plastic? Never seen one of those. This one is ally, of a Tenere.
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Did you say the bash plate is plastic? Never seen one of those. This one is ally, of a Tenere.
My bad...... I assumed it was the standard off the XT600E and because it wasnt tubular I got confused with my DRZ plastic one piece !

Should be good !!
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Looks nice. Tell more about the custum things you have fittee and/or modified.

Just so we all agree, the xt600e sump guard is metal, and very sturdy, eventho it doesnt protect as good as a real bashplate.
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Looks nice. Tell more about the custum things you have fittee and/or modified.

Just so we all agree, the xt600e sump guard is metal, and very sturdy, eventho it doesnt protect as good as a real bashplate.
This is the bash guard I had on my xt600e... hence my confusion !



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Me and the missus have identical XT's and we're fixing to ride across America, by a route we've pull out our a**es, flying into Montreal, entering America on land, going from Conneticut(relatives visit), down in the shape of a V to the deep south and up through the desert through Vegas to LA, then down to San Diego and back across to hit mainlane Mexico (Copper Canyon side) and then following the road to Ushuaia, returning up the east coast to Buenos Aires, and hopefully on a ship to South Africa. Holy Sheep Sh*t boyo, how it rolls off the tongue.

These mods I have shown are pretty much all. I've got a 'analogue satnav', an idea I got from reading Bob Goddard's book 'Beyond Bucharest' (Thanks Bob) which is basically a white board attached to the handlebars. It works very well for navigation and never requires charging. Other than that, we're set to go. It seems like packing up our lives is harder than the trip planning!
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