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Engine Protection Skid Plate

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Gerard

Gerard

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2020 R 18 First edition, and 2x 2005 R1200C Montauk
I received today the Engine Protection Skid Plate from DK design.
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And installed it.
All stainless. The skid itself is painted Grey or black.
No special problem, strait forward job, except one washer was missing.
I had some to replace it.

Please don't comment my dirty and poorly equipped garage ... 🤣


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The two screws which will receive the backward holder.
They need to be replaced by the two longer ones from the kit.

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The two front holders installed in the available unused threaded holes

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The back older:

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Job done.
Must be noticed that the skid plate has to be removed ( the four underneath screws) for oil and filter change.
 
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Wait !

I had a gift in the box: a neck scarf, fully DK design badged ... :cool:


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Makes changing the oil a real pain in the ass. Seems a drain plug hole would have been a nice feature. Very poor design.
 
What I said, you need to remove the plate, only taking off the four lower screws.
 
Gerard said:
What I said, you need to remove the plate, only taking off the four lower screws.
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Still a very poor design. Cut a hole for the oil drain plug, how hard is that? Viola, no bolts to remove and in install. Cut the hole before installing the plate.
 
Cut a hole for this, then cut a hole for that, pretty soon you’ll wonder what it’s protecting

Looks nice, Gerard.

I have the DK front fender en route. Great communication & reasonable prices. They’re proving to be a responsive and reliable mod supplier for our R18
 
TodkaVonic said:
Cut a hole for this, then cut a hole for that, pretty soon you’ll wonder what it’s protecting

Looks nice, Gerard.

I have the DK front fender en route. Great communication & reasonable prices. They’re proving to be a responsive and reliable mod supplier for our R18
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You are right. Just what is it actually protecting, since everything is recessed.
Though it does decrease the ground clearance.
"Looks nice"? If you could crawl under the bike or attach a mirror for the general public.
 
In the following, I intend no offense to anyone or to DK Design.

Since 1999, I've done a lot of work trips to the Geneva vicinity in Switzerland and France and they are speed bump crazy. And they make them in all sorts of sizes and shapes. Some are individual square plateaus ranging from just a few feet in each direction to large enough to span two lanes. Others are like half of a log across the road and can range from a few inches high to significantly more. Sometimes you go UP on entering a village and don't go back DOWN until you get to the town exit. One gent who I worked with told me that they are sometimes called "sleeping policemen", for the apparent conclusion that they slow up the traffic without needing a cop around. So... I get it. Some of the speed bumps in Europe can be a crankcase killer. Here in America, I've never seem such variety or seen them designed so potentially deadly to a motorcycle engine. Unless a rider often rode on unpaved, gnarly roads, which is definetly NOT what the R18 was made for, is there another reason to have a skid plate on a $22K street bike?
 
Gerard,
How long did it take to arrive from Tiwan? I ordered the crash bar from them and it has been at customs in Hong Kong for 10 days.
 
I ordered it on 03/05 and received it on 03/18, so 15 days from Taiwan to France.
No additional custom charge.
 
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