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Message started by savageguy1 on 01/07/17 at 16:08:13

Title: Bash plate?
Post by savageguy1 on 01/07/17 at 16:08:13

Hello im am doing home tracker build and I noticed that the engine I right in the way of any rock and being aluminum , it might be easy to punch a whole straight through it, so I was wondering I any one here has ever made a bash plate for their savage?

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by pg on 01/07/17 at 16:47:10

Surely their is someone here on the forum that could fab something....

Best regards,

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/07/17 at 17:03:42

Aluminum plate. Couple of clamps. Look at where you want it, close your eyes, envision the solution. Build it.

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Post by verslagen1 on 01/07/17 at 17:17:04

take note that the oil drain is down there and you'll need access.
I'd make a plate that swung on the front bolt and fixed in the rear some how.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by Dave on 01/08/17 at 05:45:07

A "tracker" is not really a dual sport or adventure bike, and normally they stay on the street and don't need a bash plate. Trackers are modeled after the bikes that race on circle dirt tracks......and they race on oval tracks that are graded smooth at the beginning of the race - but it can get some ruts or holes by the end of the race.

Are you planning on doing some serious off roading in the rocks?

You can make a skid/bash plate if you want the look, or believe you are going to be riding in an area with heavy rocks.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by groupus on 01/08/17 at 12:53:16

I did this for fun with an old license plate and some "reusable" zip ties. I will have to undo some of them for the next oil change or cut out a little notch. I know it's only thin aluminum, but could protect the frame/engine from bumps and scrapes.

http://https://i.imgur.com/WsIaZmeh.jpg

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Post by thumperclone on 01/08/17 at 13:11:10

mud flap would do the same thing

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Post by Kris01 on 01/08/17 at 13:53:56

I love the angle of that pic!

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Post by xaman on 01/08/17 at 14:29:54

Sometimes you can modify an existing one, which might be easier than starting from scratch. I don't have any pics handy (could snap some later if desired) but I had an extra bash plate for a triumph Scrambler laying around that was a reasonably close fit. Works well. It's not for sliding over boulders, but works well for thrown gravel and lighter impacts. It has to be removed for oil changes but that's only 4 bolts.

My bike is a street mostly scrambler, with frequent gravel roads and mild FS roads, but I occassionally end up in " rougher than intended" situations, so I think it makes sense to put some mild protection there.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by savageguy1 on 01/08/17 at 16:02:06

Thanks, I can fab it myself I was just looking for ideas, and I know what a tracker, is but I would still like to have the plate there for extra protection. and I would love to some pics of the scrambler bash plate.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by xaman on 01/08/17 at 17:57:46

Just welded a flat plate up front, then used the triumph frame rail tabs (they just hook over the frame and snug down with bolts. The savage frame is near or in the rear, so I had to slot at the bash plate to fit. I'm not real happy with the fit and then on the rear after all, so I plan to weld the tabs to the frame instead at the next oil change.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/xamaneli/17BFD2E6-14C1-4494-A72E-72F922B816CB.jpg (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/xamaneli/media/17BFD2E6-14C1-4494-A72E-72F922B816CB.jpg.html)

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/xamaneli/0475797D-BB3B-4089-86AD-703FDF2A52EE.jpg (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/xamaneli/media/0475797D-BB3B-4089-86AD-703FDF2A52EE.jpg.html)

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/xamaneli/10D3B4EC-3466-41BB-BA42-9BAEF522E4D9.jpg (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/xamaneli/media/10D3B4EC-3466-41BB-BA42-9BAEF522E4D9.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by Kenny G on 01/08/17 at 18:16:16

Xaman,

I think your skid plate is pretty cool. It just goes to show what a guy can do that has an idea and the balls to stick with it.

I have wanted to try to make a skid plate and have someone with a louver press cut louvers in it for air circulation, but I haven't done it.

Kenny G

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Post by Kris01 on 01/08/17 at 19:48:35

Would this affect cooling at all?

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by Dave on 01/09/17 at 04:01:51

766768626761746F7675060 wrote:

and I know what a tracker, is but I would still like to have the plate there for extra protection.

No offense intended......I am from an era when flat track motorcycles were stripped of whatever you didn't need so you could make the bike as light as possible, and whatever had to stay was drilled for lightness and safety wired to keep it together.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by batman on 01/12/17 at 20:28:31

I like Axman's design ,but I would go a step farther by drilling a pair of holes front and back and sawing between the to make a slot in the bottom of the plate centered just below the oil drain plug,this would give you room for a wrench to remove the plug. IF you made a cut from the center of the slot ,opposite the plug and bent the resulting triangles upward and welded a small piece of angle iron to them ,the plug would come out and the oil behind would hit the inverted v and be deflected downward into your oil drain pan,saving removal at every oil change.

Title: Re: Bash plate?
Post by Kenny G on 01/12/17 at 20:35:25

Batman,

Good Idea!

Maybe we could get Armen to make some skid plates......

Kenny G