Please note that the first item to install is the crash bars, second is the engine guards, third is the skid plate and the final piece is the upper crash bars. Some installation steps of the crash bars and engine guards merge.
Crash Bars
- 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!
- Drop test video is right here.
Compatibility:
Lower Crash Bars: 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 standard and 2018 / 2019 Adventure Sports models. One crash bars for all models.
Engine Guards
- 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 Guards: 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.
Upper Crash Bars
- Hand MIG welded – It’s all about the strength! We continue to follow our philosophy: toughness and functionality over appearance.
- Quality 25mm/1″ steel tube with 2mm wall thickness
- Tough mounting points – No cutting corners here (either)! Precision laser cut pieces for perfect fitment using 4mm thick metal mounts. These parts absorb a lot of impacts from crashes, rather than your bikes chassis
- Stainless Steel Hardware – These bolts and nut will always and forever look nice and shiny. Unless your bike is covered in mud and dust…
- Sandblasted to achieve the best possible adhesion of the coatings – it”s an extremely vital part of our manufacturing process. Sandblasted surfaces will withstand most surface scratches and give you a longer-lasting product.
- 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:
Upper Crash Bars: 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 standard and 2018 / 2019 Adventure Sports. One upper crash bars for all models.
Skid Plate
- 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.
- 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.
David Lopez (verified owner) –
Los protectores son una pasada funcionan perfectamente y quedan perfectos. El único punto negativo es que el cubre carter hace ruido le faltaria algun taco de goma para que no rebotara tanyo el sonido motor.
Robertas R. (verified owner) –
Very good quality. Worth your money.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Excellent service and the finished installation is very hard-wearing. Bulletproof, in fact.
Unfortunately, I need to knock a point off. I have the Adventure Sports model that has fake crash bars and some other changes that weren’t reflected in the supplied instructions – I had to remove the exhaust header in order to get the mounting plate for the factory bars off.
As the supplied instructions were base-model specific it took about an hour’s head scratching to work out why the mounting plate wasn’t going on.
Lorant (store manager) –
The exhaust headers actually don’t need to be removed, only loosened. We added two additional pages regarding Adventure Sports specific installation steps.
Joao Marques Mira (verified owner) –
Excellent crafted product with a lot of thought into the design. Everything fitted perfectly. Really content with final outcome.
Flavio C. (verified owner) –
excellent construction, total protection, I would have preferred them lighter. or at least to know before how much they weighed.
Andrea R. (verified owner) –
Prodotti veramente eccezionali, di ottima fattura! Purtroppo ho già avuto modo di testarli e sono davvero molto robusti, la moto non ha un graffio!
Maxime G. (verified owner) –
Produits très costauds, montage réalisé par moi-même sans difficultés majeures grace aux instructions fournies dans la documentation. Je recommande ces crash-bars.
laurent ramette –
Super produit de qualité..vraiment solide..very good!!!
Lafraga (verified owner) –
The crash-bars and the skid-plate offer good protection for the bike. However I am a bit disappointed by the quality of the screws and washers. The washers for the bracket holding the left mid-bar are poorly sized. It seems that the screws are not stainless steel, so after three months of summer rides and only twice under rainy conditions they are all rusty … except the ones holding the skid-plate. So overall quality is good and it is protecting the bike, but not having stainless screws on adv-bikes is a miss !
The fitting on the bike is fine but not perfect, somehow the upper left bar had a slight misalignment, even after loosening the mid and lowers. The instructions were clear enough.
Very good reactivity of the after-sale for any question regarding the order or the install.
Davide –
After a lot of searching, this is the perfect combo between protection (the greatest, in my opinion) and look (for me the best, obviously). It fits on my bike perfectly, the Italian manual was a great surprise 😀
Thank you very much, Outback Motortek!
Will (verified owner) –
I looked for ages to get the best bars i could find that gave a lot of coverage and looked nice. These do both. My Africa Twin would now survive an apocalypse! Really great guard for the bike, had a service at Honda and they commented at how good and serious it looked and that it would offer a lot of protection. Hope I don’t have to find out but it is very rigid and solid and that also gives confidence.
CARMELO (verified owner) –
The bars are of excellent quality, aesthetically beautiful and very functional. To review the bolts and screws that after 1 month show signs of rust.
Daniel H. (verified owner) –
Most solid protection ever
Ales Likar (verified owner) –
It is perfect for Honda Africa twin
Anton Peter P. (verified owner) –
Still a great kit, I bought the second one this time. But I still don’t like the tiny mounting clamps and screws. Btw, stainless screws would look better…the original ones are rusty after very short time…Anyway. Strong and good protection.
Yap Kian tat (verified owner) –
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Really appreciate the customer service effort helping to combine more than one order to come in one shioment.. Product is tough and gave the bike aggressive look.. Needs professional help for installing.
JORGE HERNANDEZ LOAIZA (verified owner) –
Peefect
Gavin (verified owner) –
Very high quality product. The full protection combo max kit takes a bit of time to fit but the instructions and installation videos made the job pretty straight forward.
Customer service was also excellent.
Peter A. (verified owner) –
Perfect fit.
SANDA (verified owner) –
it was not mention that DCT electric motor cover must be removed in order to fit crash bar. Othe than that product is outstanding.
Lorry (store manager) –
Thanks for your feedback. That specific plastic cover can be reinstalled by cutting a small chunk out of it.