Looking into making a skid plate for my bike. Had considered aluminum, but seeing what is on some other bikes has me thinking of a composite type, using UHMW.
I would install as far back as possible without interfering with the track, and as far up the front as needed, probably not much since I have a 2 stroke pipe there anyways. Width might be slightly wider than rails up front to help with snow deflection from motor.
Has anyone made one of these using this material? I know people out there have, as I heard about it in another thread. But it was pretty old. Curious what thickness you chose, what works well for impact resistance yet is easy to bend into place.
I was thinking 3/8" but had considered much thicker even, up to 5/8" initially.
http://www.plasticsintl.com/uhmw-natural-.375in-12in-24in-sheet-p-95-l-en.html
Appreciate any input if people have it that have worked with materials like this. Not sure what I would mount to underneath, but I have some old skid plate rail hooks that should work for up front, and run the bolts through the plastic.
I would install as far back as possible without interfering with the track, and as far up the front as needed, probably not much since I have a 2 stroke pipe there anyways. Width might be slightly wider than rails up front to help with snow deflection from motor.
Has anyone made one of these using this material? I know people out there have, as I heard about it in another thread. But it was pretty old. Curious what thickness you chose, what works well for impact resistance yet is easy to bend into place.
I was thinking 3/8" but had considered much thicker even, up to 5/8" initially.
http://www.plasticsintl.com/uhmw-natural-.375in-12in-24in-sheet-p-95-l-en.html
Appreciate any input if people have it that have worked with materials like this. Not sure what I would mount to underneath, but I have some old skid plate rail hooks that should work for up front, and run the bolts through the plastic.
