So recently I was spraying down the bike after a ride and I took the plastics off the center of the bike to spray down the lower part of the motor and there was a ton of mud and garbage caked between the oem skid plate and the bottom of the motor. I sprayed and sprayed and got most of it out, but it seems like a lot of the gunk in there was from rides as early as last year!

My question is, does anyone run aftermarket skid plates under their ride? I want to try and keep this mud and garbage out of there so I wont run into overheating issues and other things down the road, but I also have heard that to change the oil you will have to take the aftermarket plates off. I would like to do something to try and help but I am unsure of which way to go here. Any opinions and ideas would be greatly appreciated.