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I have learned to use every trick in the book on any of my bikes that I take off road, otherwise I wind up having to go back searching the trail somewhere to find my damn plate. At the moment my KLR has double nuts on the mounting bolts plus lock washers plus Loctite. If you have lower mounting holes you can tie it on with wire through those in addition.
Last trip I shook the exhaust midpipe bolt loose, but luckily it just fell into the frame and lodged there and I found it when I was giving my bike the daily once-over in camp.
Sadly my bike only has two upper mount holes and no lower mount holes. The holes are very wide and oblong too, so the thumb screws only sit tight when they are positioned just so. Not sure yet how I want to go about securing it tightly. I don't really want to Loctite it on tbh but idk.
Interesting. I've not used the type with the spring before. I just bought a bunch of shit on Amazon so we'll see if something helps. I went with a silicone backing plate instead of an aluminum one. Might wear out quick but my thought is to dampen the vibrations. Idk. Got me a new plate today too!
Nice setup. I don't know if I'm going to resort to something like that quite yet, but we'll see!
What I did on my dirtbike, was get a piece of lexan. Cut it to match your plate in size, then use some self tapping license plate screws to create the holes that you'll use to attach the plate. But before attaching the plate, drill a couple small holes in the center a couple inches apart right below your brake light there and pop rivet the piece of lexan to the plastic piece. Then attach your plate, and if you want a clean finish, you can zip the excess screw on the backside off with a cutoff wheel. It'll look clean and it'll stay attached.