The Benefits of Fitting Radiator Braces and Skid Plates

Motocross and Enduro bikes can often take a beating – here’s how to best protect them.

Ever stick your hand out of a car window at high speed during a rainstorm? That’s what your dirt bike’s engine and radiator experience constantly without proper motorcycle protection parts.

Rocks, sticks, branches, and other debris don’t seem like they would cause much harm to the hardened cases of a dirt bike engine. Take a close look at the next skid plates and radiator guards you see in the wild and behold the aftermath of thousands of impacts that weren’t obvious at the time.

Motorcycle protection parts from AS3 Performance are engineered to be light, durable, and easy to install. Here’s why these are the most important parts for protecting your motorcycle.

Engine Skid Plates

Second only to the tires, this region of a motocross bike faces the most intense action during off-road riding. Critical components like the oil filter are vulnerable. One ill-placed impact can cause a crack, leading to a leak, leaving you stranded on the side of the trail and your motorcycle’s engine damaged or destroyed.

Even the engine cases themselves are prone to damage. Though they may look and feel sturdy, your front tire is constantly chucking debris toward the engine at whatever speed you’re going. And when it comes to clearing tall obstacles, your bike’s frame isn’t designed to withstand direct impacts on a regular basis. Motorcycle protection parts are.

A sturdy aluminium skid plate from AS3 will shield your engine from these impacts. Other vendors may offer plastics kid plates, but plastic is weak by comparison. Trust me, one look at the underside of an aluminium skid plate after a hard day of riding and you’ll see the effects for yourself: all those dents are crises averted.

Radiator Guards

Ruptured radiators are no fun to contend with on the trail or the track. Whether your bike meets the ground, a tree, or an obstacle, a substantial impact can tweak a radiator, shear its supports, or break it wide open. What’s more, a cracked radiator can lead to a loss of coolant over time, increasing engine temps and damaging your engine. As one of the first areas to take damage during a fall, a bike’s radiator is often insufficiently protected from the factory.

A stout set of radiator braces from AS3 is one of the most important motorcycle protection parts money can buy. Spending about £80 ($100) on a quality radiator guard kit is much cheaper than replacing your entire radiator over a single misfortune.

Motorcycle Protection Parts

It’s important to choose bike protection parts that are sturdy and durable but also light and unobtrusive. AS3 parts are professionally designed to be lightweight and effective, allowing for easy fluid and filter changes and maintaining proper airflow in addition to providing unparalleled levels of protection.

When you’re talking about an object hitting your engine at just the right angle, it’s not if but when. Whether you’re a budding motocross racer or a legend at your local trail, motorcycle protection parts like skid plates and radiator braces will pay for themselves in short order.

Add extra protection in the form of AS3 case savers, sprocket guards, and disc guards to build your bike’s defences against anything mother nature throws at it.