Here is the first installment about some extras.

I opted to mount a crash bar. As Felix noted above, several aftermarket options already exist. At first, I thought the "professional protection" would be great ... until I actually saw it, close up. It is HUGE, and does not hug the bike, or follow its lines. There are some pics of one mounted at the premier MC parts shop in Beijing (798 shop), alongside GIVI bags. That "professional protection" looks like you are enclosed in a cage. Frankly, I think it looks butt ugly.

"Professional Crash Bar" mounted on a GW250

And here it is on taobao:

Taobao "Professional Crash Bar"

I was looking for an engine guard, but here in China, they seem to believe that these protective bars are also supposed to protect your legs in a fall. Hence, crash bars are gigantic wings. Total nonsense about protecting one's legs in a fall, but I am not going to argue with 1.3 billion people. I really wish I could find a decent metal fabricator & get my own "engine guard" made.

Anyways, I opted for this one (off taobao):

Taobao Crash Bar

The first one sent did not fit properly, despite the seller espousing "quality control". Sent it back, the seller sent a second one, and it fit.

It is a very simple mounting exercise.

It attaches to the two front engine mounting bolts, at the frame, and two clamp bolts on each side of the lower frame tubes.

1) I was damn nervous loosening off BOTH front engine mounting bolts (what if the engine drops?!?!?!). After removing the nuts from both, the bolts were "loose" which gave me confidence to slide them out. Yeah, it was ok - for some reason the engine didn't move, but I didn't want to press my luck by having it hang on whatever (???) for an extended period of time, so I hustled my bunnies to get the bar on and the bolts replaced. The factory bolts have to be replaced with longer bolts (supplied with the bar), because the bar fitting results in extra width that the bolts have to reach. One trick I learned ... it is necessary to remove the factory bolts on the left side of the bike, but use the longer replacement bolts from the right side of the bike. The longer bolts won't clear some water cooling hoses. But coming from the right side makes it easy.

2) The two lower clamps are somewhat easy (left side is a bit tight), but the bolts didn't look like they were good quality.

Here is a pic of the two front engine mounting bolts (in red circles):



Sidenote: Typical, really crappy "neep neep" horn. However, a really nice feature is the stone guard for the radiator. I wish Jialing would've done that on its JH600.

Here is a pic of a the lower clamp mount.



Here are some pics of the mounted bar. I think it looks not too bad, and offers some basic engine case protection. The "quality" is ok (good for China), but would be considered average "MIC" quality in the West. Not my ideal, but one has to cook with the ingredients at hand.

At least it is not one of those "bat wings" ... like on my YBR125 in the background. I hate that crash bar - it looks goofy, and adds too much width to the bike.









Hand guards, windscreen, RAM mount, and rear carrier coming (the carrier has been a PITA).