Expensive Engine Needs Quality Guards...

Maybe Honda equipped the CRF250X with plastic engine guards to help prevent the side covers from being scratched by bushes and briars. What other explanation is there? Those flimsy plastic pieces sure aren't going to protect our engine from stumps and rocks! For that we need something stronger, stouter, and more substantial. But maybe you don't need the coverage and protection offered by those massive, heavy, and more costly enduro-type full coverage skid plates. You simply want to protect those expensive side covers (can you say "Magnesium is expensive"?). Well, if that's your problem, knobby nose, you no longer have a problem, because Works Connection offers a pair of cleverly designed and superbly manufactured engine guards just for you. Made from several pieces of stout, reinforced, and welded aluminum, these engine guards are a snap to install, and offer far more damage resistance than those Lilly white (and equally strong) plastic pieces. And unlike those silly plastic pieces, you won't have to remove the left side guard just to change your oil filter.

But wait... there's more! If you later want to add the additional protection of a skid plate under the engine and frame, you won't need to buy a whole new full-coverage skid plate, just add the Works Performance basic Skid Plate, which works in complete harmony with their Engine Guards (see photo showing both).

CRF's Only Review by Gordon Banks, November 2004
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