by chopper » Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:59 pm
You are correct, it is an X skid plate. I made a bracket that bolts under the Y in the downtube so that the skid plate could be mounted as it was on the X frame. I did that so the coolant overflow bottle from the x could fit between the frame tubes of the cradle. The difference between X and the R frames is difficult to determine from a picture but the boss case into the Y of the X frame is one way of telling. In the case of mine you can't tell because of the skid plate. Another way is the angle of the mount that the fuel valve(petcock) bolts to, it is angled greater on the R frame.