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View Poll Results: Have you removed your belt guard, or kept it on?
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Only ride solo: removed belt guard
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Only ride solo: kept belt guard
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Ride 2 up sometimes: removed belt guard
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Ride 2 up sometimes: kept belt guard
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24th June 2020
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 1,153 Sportster/Buell Model: XL883DLX Sportster/Buell Year: 1992
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Maybe I just read too much into "germanic" languages, plus I don't know any Dutch cuss words.
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10th February 2021
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Shack in Florida swamp
Posts: 2,318 Sportster/Buell Model: XLC 1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 2001 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XL 883/1200 conversion Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2001 Other Motorcycle Model: Can Am Spyder F3-S SE6 Other Motorcycle Year: 2019
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Yeah, still got the upper belt guard. It is hanging on the wall in the back of the shop, right where I put it about 20 years ago.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 11,969 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200R Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Other Motorcycle Model: 5 bikes and 1 quad
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17th February 2021
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: On a big rock in the Florida Straights
Posts: 207 Sportster/Buell Model: XLH 1200 S Sportster/Buell Year: 1999 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XR-1000 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 83 Other Motorcycle Model: RZV500R/R1 hybrid Other Motorcycle Year: 1984
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what's a belt? i have a chain guard.. 
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1983 XR-1000S to XR-1000RX Project Build Thread
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17th February 2021
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: On a big rock in the Florida Straights
Posts: 207 Sportster/Buell Model: XLH 1200 S Sportster/Buell Year: 1999 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XR-1000 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 83 Other Motorcycle Model: RZV500R/R1 hybrid Other Motorcycle Year: 1984
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Originally Posted by wedge
You actually only need the top belt silly. The bottom is no help at all as a rubber belt can't push the rear sprocket without bending too much. 
You got me thinking though. If you run just a tight lower belt guard, and you run the bike at high RPM, you may be able to run a broken belt as long as that guard can help feed it back onto the rear sprocket every time it goes around. Could get you to the end of the drag strip, but once you stop it will fall to the pavement. 
Yeah, I know, physics isn't working in my favor with this theory, so we should downgrade this to belief rather than theory.
I don't run any guards, top, bottom, or front sprocket cover. I rely on my leg to prevent scratches to my pristine paint. I keep the top guard on the shelf just in case because they require them at the drag strip as George mentioned. |
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