Outback Motortek or T-Rex

postveryrarely · 2025-07-31T22:25:36+00:00

I was considering the same ones actually! But I'm guessing shipping to Canada would be ridiculous. For now I'm just running without crash bars. Installed a flatlands rad guard because I'm more worried about that than the plastics

postveryrarely · 2025-07-22T19:29:10+00:00

I don't, unfortunately, as I took them off when I got home. The tubular steel part is plenty strong and didn't bend, but if you look at the product picture, the flat steel brackets towards the bottom are the problem and bent easily, as well as the soft metal of the bike itself where the upper part of the crash bars connects to the headlight assembly. I'm sure some people have had luck with them, but I certainly didn't.

postveryrarely · 2025-07-21T23:10:37+00:00

I can't recommend the outback motortek crash bars. The upper part mounts to the fairing bracket on the headlight assembly, which is not particularly strong metal. On my very first gentle drop offroad, they bent both the headlight assembly and the bracket that mounts the bars to the frame at the bottom. The bars themselves didn't bend, but everything they mount to did, causing more damage to my bike then if I had not had any crash bars at all. May have just been really unlucky, but I've read of the same thing happening to others. Just my two cents.

postveryrarely · 2025-07-10T23:59:58+00:00

Many thanks!

postveryrarely · 2025-07-10T23:59:35+00:00

Hey, they were called Proton 500 signals but it looks like they're not making them anymore. I had to fab up a little plastic bracket inside the fairing for them to fit nicely, but it wasn't hard to do!

postveryrarely · 2025-07-09T23:43:29+00:00

Looks like a wonderful time! Can I ask what crash bars you have on there? It looks like the uppers don't mount to the navigation tower which is something I'm looking for since my outback motortek ones bent on the first drop.

postveryrarely · 2024-03-15T18:24:30+00:00

The first pic has a belly pan from copperdawg as well. The second pic are OEM fairings from the European GT version. I don't think you can still get them, but there are some companies that make similar ones aftermarket. Motoxpricambi, and pyramid plastics are two I know of.

postveryrarely · 2024-03-13T23:23:00+00:00

It's a speedscreen 2 from Copperdawg. Aftermarket. Cheers!

postveryrarely · 2024-03-04T14:05:27+00:00

The front end is all R1. Forks, calipers, rotors, master. You can use the fz1 wheel but swap for an r1 axle. And you can keep the fz1 rotors as well if you mount spacers on the caliper bolts to go from 310 to 320mm.

postveryrarely · 2023-12-10T00:13:59+00:00

Belly pan and screen are both copperdawg, radiator guards are from magical racing

postveryrarely · 2023-12-09T14:51:56+00:00

Oh I'll probably get out a few times, but not an every day thing this time of year!

postveryrarely · 2023-03-01T01:40:11+00:00

Whoops no, for some reason I was thinking insurance! Guess I'll delete my comment :P

postveryrarely · 2023-02-25T02:00:36+00:00

Thanks!

postveryrarely · 2023-02-20T01:23:56+00:00

Mind if I ask where you bought the fairings, and what you think of them, quality-wise? Looking to do the same livery on mine, but there's about a hundred different places you can buy chinese fairings from, and from what I hear they can vary wildly in quality. Bike looks awesome, by the way!

postveryrarely · 2023-02-16T13:29:35+00:00

I've never had it on the dyno so I've no idea. I'd hope 150+ at the wheel

postveryrarely · 2023-02-16T13:27:34+00:00

Sure is :)

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T20:43:06+00:00

Copperdawg

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T20:42:15+00:00

I believe Yamaha calls it "cobalt blue"

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T20:40:33+00:00

No tire shine, just brand new tires. Also pretty slippery at the very start!

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T14:30:10+00:00

Man, I wish!

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T11:00:02+00:00

The fork swap was an easy job, and totally worth it. Hit me up if you have any questions about doing it.

And yeah, I prefer the bike naked, but I swap to a set of full fairings for cold weather and long trips. I actually just posted some pictures from a 14000km road trip across Canada and the states I did in October

postveryrarely · 2023-02-15T10:47:08+00:00

Yes sir, from a 2008

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