Howdy. Don’t know if any of you have noticed, but after a few more than adventurous adventure rides on your Dakar there will probably be cracks appearing around the mounting points of your front guard. I suspect the weight of the “beak” and constant pounding over rougher terrain (if your using it like it’s supposed to be used 😀 ) is enough to put some strain on the plastic around the mounting bolts. I’ve had mine plastic welded once already but figured that rather than destroying it completely, or buying new OEM bits, I’d have to think of something else.

Soultion - take original off (clean and store it away) and replace with a $45.00 after-market guard - thanks TSS Motorcyles in the Hutt, they had one hanging on the wall in the parts department.

Result - not at all bad I must say, looks the business and I have noticed on the odd extremely windy days we've been getting in Wellington recently the front end is not being picked up as much in stronger gusts than it normally does. Also, it's a tad longer in front so you don't get that line of road spray coming up over the screen when it's wet.





Mounting is pretty straight forward, drill out 3 holes lined up with mounting points under steering head, find some slightly longer high tensile M6 bolts (35mm) for rear and one 50mm M8 front to save shifting horn around. Couple of machined alloy spaces I found lying around in my garage and all whacked up in about 15 minutes



Now, what next?