Tusk Tsk

When you own a Dual Sport or dirt bike accessories and components to make your toy look and run better becomes a dalliance of some interest.

Front of the Glide plate when the rear 4 bolts are in

I ordered a lot of Tusk accessories for my new KLR 650 adventure recently and have to say that the quality of this stuff is pretty piss poor.

I managed to make the Tusk Glide skid plate work bit only because I did some deft engineering hacks to get it to work.

The skid plate had 6 bolts - two of which are 8 mm with nowhere to bolt them into?

The front is miles from the front flanges when the back 4 bolts are bolted in.

I was less than impressed with this skid plate. It is a solid plate - but I had to drill an additional 2 holes to get it to work. If you buy expect to drill and get additional nuts and bolts....

Clearer view 2

The Tusk 2 Offset handlebar risers also require you to extend the electrical cables, throttle cables and clutch cables by 1 3/4 inches so that is not a good fit for my 2025 KLR 650 at all.

I got their colored brake cover in blue and also quickly found that while it could be made to fit, that the blue is the wrong blue and this is not really a good replacement for the OEM item.

I just switched it back to the original.

Kawasaki never did the blue they painted this brake cylinder cover with.

Then I ordered the Upper crash bars, after calling first and being told it would work with my existing crash bars. They do not. I will send these back ASAP.

So far I am not having much luck with Tusk, so time to switch to CNC to see what they can rustle up for me!

I get the idea these Tusk components are cheap Chinese crap.

I actually bought cheap Chinese crap for my KLX 300 and had better results.....

Oi Vey! As my Rabbi would say!