Keep Protected with P3 Carbon — DIRTASTIC

Dust bikes are requested to do rather a lot for us! They take us up and over mountains, by way of canyons and to magical locations few folks have ever seen. They endure races, crashes and a lot extra! Whereas dust bikes are sturdy and customarily dependable, they’re nonetheless machines with a great deal of shifting elements. Amidst the worldwide pandemic, these stated elements are more durable to supply with decrease manufacturing and delays in transport. So what will we do? We certainly received’t cease using and racing however we’ll discover methods to protect our beloved machines to allow them to proceed to satisfy our lives!

For years, I ran a unadorned pipe on my 2 strokes. There was all the time a again up hanging within the storage and when the time got here to swap them out, I might merely ship the smashed pipe off to get it fastened. Simple, proper? Quick ahead to days of Covid the place discovering a alternative pipe to buy isn’t as simple and getting the taco’ed ones fastened takes longer than it used to. This leaves us to discovering different hobbies to fill our weekends whereas we wait, inducing main ranges of FOMO!

Let’s face it, 2 stroke pipes get smashed. Whether or not you’re a newer rider or an skilled off-road rider, a second will come when your bike lands completely making contact with that one rock. We get to know that sound of a crushing pipe. I don’t learn about you, nevertheless it makes my coronary heart sink each time.

After utterly smashing the inventory pipe on my Husqvarna Bikes TE300i whereas using by way of the rocky desert within the Southwest final spring, I scored a recent pipe at a store that occurred to have them in inventory! That was a feat by itself! This spherical I wasn’t going to danger it, so I put a P3 Carbon Pipe Guard with Max Protection on for max safety!

The P3 Carbon Pipe Guard lived on my bike and thru excessive enduro coaching, using and racing from early April 2021 till September 2021 and nicely over 100 hrs! Right here you’ll be able to see the side-by-side earlier than and after photographs displaying situation of the guard in addition to the pipe after I took it off. Whereas the pipe shouldn’t be in good situation, you’ll be able to see that the guard did it’s job in defending my onerous to search out, sacred pipe!