Important: Changing air filter in your Africa Twin is a big job that requires plastic fairings removal. With our crash bars mounted, you can still remove or have the plastic fairings removed by your dealer’s mechanic for air filter change.
Skid Plate
Our skid plate is wider than the entire engine. It means that debris, rocks etc. that fly at it will bounce off the skid plate and leave your engine, oil filter, exhaust system header intact.
- Protects crucial areas of the engine – oil pan, engine case, oil cooler, oil filter and exhaust header! That’s a long list of very expensive parts to expose to any sort of damage that will reduce your Africa Twins value in no time.
- Uniquely designed vent system – Not only unique but very-well thought out. No unnecessary holes were designed on this bash plate. As a result, your engine will less likely to overheat when mud and all sorts of debris from off-roading fly at the engine and get stuck between the skid plate and the engine/exhaust header.
- Embossed ribs – These additional ribs add a lot of strength to the skid plate where it matters the most: the bottom. By embossing these ribs into the skid plate, we increase the cross-section of the material to about 9mm, hence this area is nearly twice as strong as other parts. Not to mention, these ribs act like gliders while your skid plate tries to slide over rocks, logs and other hard obstacles on offroad trails. Smaller surface means less resistance.
- The only known design with ridges on the bottom of the skid plate – Ridges help the skid plate glide over hard objects with the least resistance. Most importantly though, these embossed ridges will REINFORCE the bottom of this bash plate without adding unnecessary weight.
- True off-road and adventure shape – What does that even mean?? It means we have experience in building top-notch bash plates. We avoid designing skid plates that are shaped like boxes, have sharp edges and corners and will guaranteed to restrict your rides off road. We design and build skid plates that you will only benefit from while riding on rough terrain.
- 4mm thick laser cut aluminum – Nothing is ever an overkill on an adventure bike, hence we choose to build our bash plates from this ridiculously tough and thick, yet lightweight material.
- Powder coated – combined with sandblasting it’s a killer combination to protect your product’s surface. No frills and tough just like your ADV/Dual Sport bike!
Compatibility:
Skid Plate: 2016/2017/2018/2019 standard and 2018/2019 Adventure Sports. One skid plate for all models.
Crash Bars
Right off the bat, you can see that it’s more than just an engine guard. The 27mm diameter reinforcement bar ties the engine guard and the crash bars together, increasing the strength of the overall system. This design allows for even large impacts to be distributed throughout the entire system, minimizing damage to the bike’s engine, frame and other vital components.
- Quality 27mm/1.06″ steel tube with 2mm wall thickness – any low quality steel tubing BELOW THESE SPECS will be crushed when your 450lbs+ bike crashes into the ground. Our guards are designed to take the beat!
- One of the biggest advantages of our crash bars system is the all around 27mm diameter tubing that rests on 4 and 5mm thick steel mounting tabs and offers reliable protection for fairing, radiator.
- Hand MIG welded – It’s all about the strength! We continue to follow our philosophy: toughness and functionality over appearance.
- Less is often more. The design is based on the philosophy that less is often more, hence we created a compact, sturdy set of crash bars that do not reach far away from its mounting points. This system perfectly complements the sporty, aggressive lines of the CRF1000L Africa Twin.
- Powder coated – combined with sandblasting it’s a killer combination to protect your product’s surface. No frills and tough just like your ADV/Dual Sport bike!
- Crash tests can be seen in the YouTube video link: Watch here
Compatibility:
Crash Bars: 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 standard and 2018 / 2019 Adventure Sports models. One crash bars for all models.
Engine Guards
The engine guards are secured entirely onto the frame using 4 and 5mm steel tabs, knowing that the engine cases are the most exposed in all tip-overs, we designed these for maximum strength.
- Engine Case Protection – entirely frame mounted, thus the fragile engine is not exposed to forces transferred to it due to crash impact.
- Crash Bars Reinforcement – the engine guard is tied into the crash bars through a reinforcement bar.
- 27mm diameter tubing – handles the weight of the bike under impact (crash).
- Sandblasted and powder coated surface – simple and tough coating that lasts.
Compatibility:
Engine Case Guard: 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 standard and 2018 / 2019 Adventure Sports. One engine guards for all models. Only specify transmission type (DCT or Manual) on webpage. NOT compatible with DCT foot shifter pedal.
Please note: We do not guarantee compatibility with any aftermarket exhaust header/manifold due to the different shapes and designs carried out by dozens of exhaust manufacturer companies. At the moment, we only guarantee fitment with original Honda CRF1000L Standard and Adventure. Sports exhaust header/manifold. Thank you for your understanding.
Christopher G. (verified owner) –
Saw your protection on an Africa Twin one of our group was riding off road in Portugal and thought it was perfect for me. Delivered promptly and easy to install, fortunately not tested yet.
admin (store manager) –
Thank you kindly for your feedback. Ride safely and hope to see you on or off-road.
Muraguri Muraya (verified owner) –
Was this review helpful to you?Christoffer (verified owner) –
Easy to mount
admin (store manager) –
Fantastic to hear. Ride safely.
Damien (verified owner) –
Great look and obviously very robust. However not really easy to install. I don’t like the fact that the upper bar limit the access to the battery. I had to cut the front panel of the battery to close it.
admin (store manager) –
Thank you for your feedback, Damien. We appreciate it and will try to improve our products upon it. Ride safely!
Leif Molina (verified owner) –
Was this review helpful to you?joshua (verified owner) –
Received the order really fast (Africa twin ultimate protection combo) it was all really well packaged, Incredible customer service Lorry couldn’t have treated me better this guy really knows his stuff!. The quality of the products are outstanding you can really tell they are made to take the hammering, the install was really simple I would recommend outback motortek without a doubt to anybody who wants serious protection.
Joshua
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sorin andrei (verified owner) –
Was this review helpful to you?Raphaël C. (verified owner) –
La qualité du produit est excellente. Tant au niveau des finitions que de la construction, cela semble plus solide que la concurrence. J’ai pu vérifier leur solidité sur une chute assez violente à l’arrêt, rien n’a bougé. Il est possible, moyennant quelques heures pour les plus novices, de les monter soit même. Cependant, les consignes sont assez floues, je vous conseille de négocier avec votre concessionnaire pour le montage. Excellent produit !
MARC HELIE DE LA HARIE (verified owner) –
Very strong and adapted product, nice and professional relation
Patrick P. (verified owner) –
Très bon produit, la qualité est présente, seulement ma moto as un échappement complet black widow, j’ai du faire beaucoup de modifications et d’ajustement pour que les crashbars puissent se monter avec mon système d’échappement.
Sinon pas déçus de la qualité et de la protection apporter.
Lorant (store manager) –
Nous apprécions votre avis et votre soutien.
Helge Eide (verified owner) –
The unbrako head bolts connecting the two pieces together are a bit soft and will slip when tightening. Change to torx or harder steel quality. Also hexagon bolts with torx inside I find a bit too soft. Except from that, I’m very happy with the crash bars, and I know that several riders I’ve talked to has bought and consider to buy Outback Motortek bars.
Daniel (verified owner) –
La instalación un poco complicada, aunque la hice yo mismo sin mucha experiencia. Por lo demás, las defensas son perfectas. Robustas y no llenan el carenado de hierros, son más discretas que la mayoría que es lo que buscaba. Recomendable.
Jean-Luc B. (verified owner) –
Tested and validated on 1000 km Spanish tracks. I felt several times and the protection did their job. I wish however they where somewhat higher in order to protect even better. But all in all, very good product.
Simone Valbonesi (verified owner) –
Was this review helpful to you?Marc Pellaud (verified owner) –
Great gear and very helpful tips on fitting issue. Highly recommand product And company!
r.kwi (verified owner) –
perfect fitment on AT 2019
A+++++++++++++++++++
thanks
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Adrian G. (verified owner) –
Muy buenas defensas, las tengo instaladas en mi africa twin adventure sports 2019 y son geniales, muy robustas y el cubre carter ya me ha ahorrado algún susto con piedras sueltas. Tube una caída en zona blanda y a la moto no le pasó absolutamente nada. Otro amigo con una africa twin tubo ese mismo día otra caída en asfalto, deslizando la moto, y no sufrió daño alguno.
De momento, a día de hoy solo tengo palabras buenas para estas defensas.
Jonathan A. (verified owner) –
Havent had to use it yet. But feels solid and fitmwnt is snugg.
Ingar Engan (verified owner) –
Excellent product and service!👍👍
Eric Goller (verified owner) –
Outstanding customer service. Delivering within a very tight timeline providing constant status transparency along the way.
The product itself has served its purpose several times, carrying several scrapes and bruises as badges of honor without any impact on its structural integrity.
Would buy again anytime.
jarmo (verified owner) –
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