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I’ve also been doing a bit of crash testing recently, and have the standard plastic guards.
The first, and most spectacular, involved a freefall through some young trees and old fridges/gas bottles, they managed to get inside the guards and scratch the valve covers to the bone.
The second, a rear-shunt, pushed the bike onto some fresh gravel and again the gap in the guards allowed the valve covers to get nicely scratched.
I'd be well up for a set of guards that did a bit more than catch flies - something with some heavy gauge, close weave wire mesh could probably cover more area and not impact on cooling. The metal guards I've seen from Touratech don't seem to cover that much of the head either. Whatever they cost would be a bit more than I was expecting were you thinking of having a sale?