Hyde skid plate

[killergasser]

After folding my CRD plate like a pretzel I went against my better judgement and picked up a Hyde plate from Jack at Road Track & Trail. Pain in the ass to mount at first, but once my brain engaged it went on easy. I was a little nervous about a plastic skidder protecting the underbelly in rocky sections, but after a 2 hour hare scramble yesterday without a clutch half way through and ramming into everything on the trail the Hyde gets a thumbs up from me. It slides over logs like butter and I whacked some rocks pretty hard without any damage occuring to anything.
My two cents,
D

 

[GMP]

How is the coverage? Can you post a photo?

I like the CRDs coverage, but its too thin and weak.

 

[killergasser]

I photo the dirty girl tonight. Coverage is great, with the skid plate cover the water pump and coming up right to the edge of both sides of the cases. Photos will explain all, I'll be sure to snap a few bad photos tonight.

 

[jeffd]

From the photos on the corporate site for hyde development - the coverage looks good.

Here are a couple of pics for the skid plate alone, plus a couple of pics of the skid plate + the pipe guard.

jeff

p.s. I modified the setup for the board so that thumbnails are displayed by default - click the thumbnails below to see the full photo in it's own window.

 

[Eric K]

Has anyone used the combination skid plate/pipe guard?

 

[killergasser]

The pictures off the Website are better than mine. I'm going to be trying a pipe guard when they arrive, but haven't as of yet. A member of my club is the distributor of them, so I'll let you know when they arrive. The pictures look hideous, but he assures me they don't look like that in real life.

 

[motorhead]

Sooo,do they look like that in real life or ? ? ?

 

[cdn280]

Is the mounting any better than the CRD ? I find that with every casing on a log/rock on the CRD will move the plate further backwards and it will eventually drop off the back where it hooks on the frame rail. There is nothing to stop it from moving backwards except for the front mount which is real soft alloy and cannot be tightened enough. I was going to make that front bracket piece out of better metal, but now it seems the plate is bent enough to need a body shop to straighten it out.

That pipe guard is beyond ugly tho.

 

[GMP]

cdn280,

I did just that, duped the mounts in stainless so they can be tightened better. I also added a centering bar in the back that is captured by the frame when tightened, preventing the rear of the plate from shifting sideways or rearward. Works good, but the plate is still too soft and wimpy for my terrain.

 

[Tom Zelko]

after going thru 2 flatland plates per year and waiting for the crd plate for 3 months I broke down and tried the plastic Hyde. The coverage is great. The mounting on my 06 300 was a little bit of a pain in the ass, the pipe rubber mount was hard to line up. I think my bracket was bent. The first time out my pipe burnt a hole in the skid plate, but after ridding lots and lots of riverbeds full of rocks the skid plate works great!!! no ratteling no loose mounting brackets, no bent mounting brackets, just a bunch of scratches. I don't know how well it will protect my frame from bending under the engine because it was allready bent. and it covers the water pump great. Watch out the first time you do a off camber log jump in the rain!! The skid plate is so smooth on the btm that you grind like a skate board on a grinding pipe, it is really slippery 3 brocken ribs later . this skid plate is unreal

 

[bobr]

i was the first to try one of those from Hyde. the importer sent me a free one. i remember the customer i gave it to complaining the hardware was diffcult at best to use and not of very good quality. he went back to the CRD. i did let them know. it looks like it offered great protection.

 

[fury1]

well bob where did the hyde end up???I want it!!

 

[Brian VT]

well bob where did the hyde end up???I want it!!

LOL. Beat me to it.
I think I want the one with the pipe guard. Hear that Santa ?

 

[bobr]

DaveW has it. you'll find him at the SandBaggers Club.

 

[killergasser]

Finally saw the pipe guard, it is beyond ugly, but looks more functional than my exploded and chunked up Carbon one. I'm not in it for the beauty just the function, and that's a good thing with this Igor of a pipe guard.

 

[motorhead]

not stylish yet functional=I want one!

 

[mattmax]

skidplate

I don't know if this helps anyone, but the skidplate from an 04 to 06 KTM 300 will fit an MC 250 with slight mods and possibly the DE(EC) models. You narrow the rear hook to the frame and two bolts hold the bracket in front. It's 3/16" aluminum and seems pretty tough.

I got stuck with KTM parts after a dealer in Houston sold me a 300xcw as new that his buddy had bought, taken home and seized the cylinder the first 5 minutes. They honed it and stuck a piston in it and sold as new until I figured it out. Now I'm trying to mod KTM parts to fit a GG, and it's been working well.

 

[Neil E.]

The skid plate in the picture without the pipe guard looks different than the one in the picture with the pipe guard. Is the combo unit different than buying the separate skid plate and pipe guard?

 

[cladoo]

Yes the two are different guards. I sold a combo to a customer and he had some difficulty installing it but loves the protection and he says it looks better on th ebike than when it was off and in his hands.

 

[PEB]

So how do they perform? Anyone got some good photos? How well does the pipe guard work. I really like the fact that the skid plate and pipe guard integrate. I am always thinking of that little pocket when going over logs and such, would be sweet if it were some slippery plastic. Someone please post a report with better pics than are on the HYDE site.

Paul B