(11-30-2016, 01:15 PM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: Back to the low exhaust, I bashed in the exhaust collector on my F800GT riding over a parking lot curb. $400 for a used but like-new OE collector and I was back in business. It was one of several stupid "expensive stunts" I've done in my life. I suppose a bash plate would have helped, but it would have looked way out of place on that bike.
Why'n't just get a GS?!
I hardly ride my GS off-road at all and it's got a full complement of guards, every guard you can get I have on there. Got the BMW skid plate and lower engine guards, and Touratech upper cage.
But once I was riding on an unimproved road, and hit a rock that smacked that skid plate. It left a gouge. Without that plate, could've damaged the oil cooler. So you never know.