bradley300
03-28-2005, 09:16 AM
Belly skid in depth-By bradley300, prices from www.prm-atv.com
this is the first in the next part of the Blaster project. Along with a small review within the articles and race coverage, i will also be going farther in depth with a few products in seperate articles.
The first products will be the PRM belly skid plate on our project. All of my reveiws will be on projects made for the blaster, but all the products I review "in depth" will be for most sport class quads (not anything that is specific to one model) all though set up may vary between different models.
One of the first mods any good XC racing machine should have is skid plates. Most quads come with cheap belly skids and sometimes no belly skid at all. Everyone knows after the first weekend of trail riding or racing, the stock skids are probably junk. Even if they are'nt, everyone would be wishing they had more protection. So after that first weekend I did my research for a good belly skid. I also wanted a grab bar (thanks to a 400ex that followed to close up a hill:mad: ) swingarm skid and bumper, but those will come later.
I have always like related parts to be the same brand when its possiblle. Dont know why, its just a thing of mine. Anyway, as i got to looking at different threads on this board, it seems that there are two companies that everyone seems to be in agreement with for xc racing. These are PRM and Pro Armor. So off to thier respective websites I went. After looking on Pro Armor's website, i found that they have sold all of there Yamaha parts to Yamaha directly and are now being sold under the GYT-R name. So off to yamaha's web site where they have an assortment of GYT-R parts for a Blaster. I personaly just didnt like the way the small stock style grab bar looked. There isnt a very good descrition of anything on the site and some of it seems kind of pricey (like the GYT-R bumper for 126 bucks). Having used PRM in the past, it didnt take long on the yamaha site to make my choice.
this is the first in the next part of the Blaster project. Along with a small review within the articles and race coverage, i will also be going farther in depth with a few products in seperate articles.
The first products will be the PRM belly skid plate on our project. All of my reveiws will be on projects made for the blaster, but all the products I review "in depth" will be for most sport class quads (not anything that is specific to one model) all though set up may vary between different models.
One of the first mods any good XC racing machine should have is skid plates. Most quads come with cheap belly skids and sometimes no belly skid at all. Everyone knows after the first weekend of trail riding or racing, the stock skids are probably junk. Even if they are'nt, everyone would be wishing they had more protection. So after that first weekend I did my research for a good belly skid. I also wanted a grab bar (thanks to a 400ex that followed to close up a hill:mad: ) swingarm skid and bumper, but those will come later.
I have always like related parts to be the same brand when its possiblle. Dont know why, its just a thing of mine. Anyway, as i got to looking at different threads on this board, it seems that there are two companies that everyone seems to be in agreement with for xc racing. These are PRM and Pro Armor. So off to thier respective websites I went. After looking on Pro Armor's website, i found that they have sold all of there Yamaha parts to Yamaha directly and are now being sold under the GYT-R name. So off to yamaha's web site where they have an assortment of GYT-R parts for a Blaster. I personaly just didnt like the way the small stock style grab bar looked. There isnt a very good descrition of anything on the site and some of it seems kind of pricey (like the GYT-R bumper for 126 bucks). Having used PRM in the past, it didnt take long on the yamaha site to make my choice.