P500 Thoughts on Floorboard protection?

[Jshell3]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good. I put it all back together.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground... standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

 

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[rocmar]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground and standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

Yeah I avoid them
if it's an area I ride alot
I clean up the trail...
if not I go around..
or slow down. Glad
no one got hurt...

 

[webby]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground... standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

Agree 100% with @rocmar! The group I ride with cuts back brush and cleans off any major limbs or boulders on frequently used trails.

 

[rocmar]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good. I put it all back together.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground... standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

You will now slow down...go around
....on hands real lesson...owning one of
these....s***s gonna happen...depending
If your on your game...determines how
bad it is.....IMO

 

[rocmar]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good. I put it all back together.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground... standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

Ride Safe....

 

[Jshell3]

You will now slow down...go around
....on hands real lesson...owning one of
these....s***s gonna happen...depending
If your on your game...determines how
bad it is.....IMO

YooHoo... 9mph. On a trail I had bushhogged, in the woods...
Looking for a little bit more of a solution, than picking up sticks. Running over sticks is absolutely unavoidable. There are always limbs down, trees fallen. I'm not in the desert. I live in Mississippi.

Any underneath protection I could bolt on, or something? Has anyone fabricated something or installed any type of deflector?

 

[rocmar]

YooHoo... 9mph. On a trail I had bushhogged, in the woods...
Looking for a little bit more of a solution, than picking up sticks.

Any underneath protection I could bolt on, or something.

Stick stoppers
full new metal skid
them two = $
Cleaning the trail....free
good exercise. ..
enjoy the woods
make fire...roast
hotdogs...

 

[rocmar]

YooHoo... 9mph. On a trail I had bushhogged, in the woods...
Looking for a little bit more of a solution, than picking up sticks. Running over sticks is absolutely unavoidable. There are always limbs down, trees fallen. I'm not in the desert. I live in Mississippi.

Any underneath protection I could bolt on, or something? Has anyone fabricated something or installed any type of deflector?

There's woods here too
Google it
sorry I can't click
my heels & solve your
problem. ..I tried

 

[Jshell3]

Would stick stoppers help keep it out of my floorboards? I know they help w/ CV boots. I read, William (I think), say that his stick stoppers constantly fill w/ mud. He's from Mississippi, too.

 

[Jshell3]

Don't have a solution for you Shell, but I feel your frustration with patronizing non-answers to your question.

Yeah, not going there.

But I figured since I had experienced this right off the bat... I wasn't alone. Maybe so. I'm going to crawl around under there a little this afternoon. It can't be too hard to make a little something to help keep sticks out of such a soft part of the floor.

 

[rocmar]

Don't have a solution for you Shell, but I feel your frustration with patronizing non-answers to your question.

I have felt a couple of hard hits to my floorboard as well. Nothing has come through yet, but it is an area of concern.

I've got some stuff I'm pretty fond of between my legs...

9mph? You wildass rebel, you!

Joe

wasn't patronizing gave him
my 2 cents..
nothing I said ...was in his thoughts

 

[Montecresto]

I was trail riding at 9mph... At mile #60 on my new ride, a 18" long / big around as your arm, tree limb came up through my passenger floorboard. It didn't do major damage, but popped about 9 of the plastic clip retainers (push rivets) breaking several and pulled the floor mat up around a center bolt of the floorboard frame. I have a stash of 10mm push rivets from previously owning Hondas... So all good. I put it all back together.
Apparently, the front tire kicked the limb up just right to make it pole vault against the ground... standing it up against my floorboard.

SO... that being said... I've seen the $$$ under armor skid plate systems some of you guys are running on your builds (looking at you Jackal)... VERY Nice but more than I can spend, right now.

Are there any alternatives? Like just an expanded metal underside floorboard mod. Or would a simple pair of stick stoppers do the trick? (I have neither).

All I know, taking a chunk of wood though your brand new P500, will make you more than a little uncomfortable...

Depends on where you ride. Same trails all the time, sure clean them up I suppose. I cover a hundred miles a weekend on abandoned forest logging roads which are now merely overgrown trails, littered with rocks and fallen branches. Cleaning is not an option. Another member KNOCKED his oil drain plug off and dropped all his oil until his P5 quit, due to those cheap thin plastic OEM covers I won't even call skids. SSS skids, the only real option, IMO.

 

[webby]

YooHoo... 9mph. On a trail I had bushhogged, in the woods...
Looking for a little bit more of a solution, than picking up sticks. Running over sticks is absolutely unavoidable. There are always limbs down, trees fallen. I'm not in the desert. I live in Mississippi.

Any underneath protection I could bolt on, or something? Has anyone fabricated something or installed any type of deflector?

I'm not in the desert either and I understand where you're coming from with the inevitability of having to run over things. I didn't mean to make it sound like I'm trail sweeping every time I ride but moving obvious things that can damage the machine does help that's all I was saying. I wasn't trying to be patronizing at all as some may suggest. I'm sure there would be a way fab something underneath to better protect the floorboards I just haven't had the need to do that. Good luck in finding a solution and glad you weren't hurt!

 

[Montecresto]

Would stick stoppers help keep it out of my floorboards? I know they help w/ CV boots. I read, William (I think), say that his stick stoppers constantly fill w/ mud. He's from Mississippi, too.

No, stick stoppers are protection for your boots/axles. The skid plate is more important than stick stoppers IMO, and the price of stick stoppers is half way to SSS skids.

 

[rocmar]

Trails I ride on a regular basis
I clean....
& I don't have a hole in
my floorboard. ...
.......& there's woods
in these here...desert

 

[Jshell3]

I'm not in the desert either and I understand where you're coming from with the inevitability of having to run over things. I didn't mean to make it sound like I'm trail sweeping every time I ride but moving obvious things that can damage the machine does help that's all I was saying. I wasn't trying to be patronizing at all as some may suggest. I'm sure there would be a way fab something underneath to better protect the floorboards I just haven't had the need to do that. Good luck in finding a solution and glad you weren't hurt!

Yeah. No worries. I didn't read it as such. I trail ride on trails that aren't public (or traveled regularly), often times I'm by myself. So the trail "changes" from ride to ride. It's just hard to justify getting in and out the number of times it'd take to clean a trail... only to do it all over next ride. That's why I asked about additional options.

Back in the day, before Honda started making ES models, (like early 2000) companies made aftermarket floorboards (see photo). Just wondering if there's something like this? Effectively for the same reasons.

 

[Jshell3]

wasn't patronizing gave him
my 2 cents..
nothing I said ...was in his thoughts

Hey rocmar, no problem. I read all the stuff you write. You're one of the first guys I followed when I joined this site. Sorry, if my retort seemed cavalier. Just figured 9mph was slow enough.. HA! Skidplates and Stick stoppers. That's pretty much what I'm hearing from everyone. Got it!

 

[rocmar]

Hey rocmar, no problem. I read all the stuff you write. You're one of the first guys I followed when I joined this site. Sorry, if my retort seemed cavalier. Just figured 9mph was slow enough.. HA! Skidplates and Stick stoppers. That's pretty much what I'm hearing from everyone. Got it!

Your a new rider...alot of stuff
you'll figure out as you get more
seat time..
it is good practice...to move big
stuff off the trail...if necessary

 

[rocmar]

Hey rocmar, no problem. I read all the stuff you write. You're one of the first guys I followed when I joined this site. Sorry, if my retort seemed cavalier. Just figured 9mph was slow enough.. HA! Skidplates and Stick stoppers. That's pretty much what I'm hearing from everyone. Got it!

I'm honored. ..
Ride Safe....

 

[pFive]

I think I am going to end up with the SSS plastic, I often ride where there are no trails and I also have large rocks trying to find a way into the foot well.