One of the slickest products we're running on the TPR project YFZ450R comes from B-Tek Performance based in Syracuse, N.Y.
B-Tek is sponsoring the project with their new SKID E-Z full chassis aluminum skid plate. This chassis skid plate is like no other on the market. The trick part about this skid plate is its single-bolt mounting system.
See anything strange about this skid plate? Only one bolt holds the B-Tek SKID E-Z chassis skid plate in place. In six years of testing, the company has experienced no failures.
Bill Barth, the co-founder of B-Tek Performance, explained the single-bolt mounting system to TPR and how it works on the YFZ450R.
Aluminum brackets at the back of the skid plate near the rear frame rail slide into the frame itself, and a single bolt located near the front of the frame keeps everything tight. Barth said he's been testing the SKID E-Z for the past six years with A-level motocross riders in New York and the SKID E-Z has not experienced one failure. The welds have held up and the test models have never come loose.
The SKID E-Z is superior to other chassis skid plates that require six to eight bolts or more, plus cumbersome brackets, to keep the skid plate in place. Those systems require a lot of wrenching to remove and install and often loosen up.
Barth said his SKID E-Z installs and removes in seconds without the hassle of standing the quad on its grab bar.
"It’s been just an amazing discovery I’ve come across, because I’ve used traditional style skid plates where you’ve got to fight either with the nuts and bolts or the aluminum clasps," Barth said. "The last thing you want is to have to fight with a skid plate."
B-Tek's SKID E-Z is available for most popular sport quad brands, including KTM, Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki.
Check out B-Tek Performance online at http://www.webspawner.com/users/btekperf/
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