The other day, in Sweden: “How in frozen Starköl can I protect my Sportster, when love sick Moose keep populating the roads, forcing riders to take offroad detours around them?“
Swedes who entertain such thoughts just take a piece of steel sheet metal and mold it into a „helmet for the nether parts“, using laser cutters and old fashioned hydraulic presses.
That’s roughly how this exclusive accessory for Sportsters came into being. In cooperation with LeBeef Metalworks, Vargön, Sweden we’re proud to offer the LeBeef Skid Plate Baja Heavy Duty for Sportsters.
It’s easy to install even by left handed wrenchers and the 3D design multiplies the strength of the 1mm sheet steel. Making your Sportster not only look as if you could take the gravel road to work if you wanted, you might actually do it.
If you’re into weight reduction, this skid plate is also available in lightweight aluminium construction, by the name of Bates Skid Plate Baja.

Gravel, rocks and roadkill – here’s an awesome tire knowing no fear. Whistle into town, come back home across the fields Steve McQueen style. Do some hooligan racing among friends on the neighborhood dirt track. Or what about that camping trip to that place where the road ends you’ve been postponing all those years? The Bates Baja tires can handle it.
Here’s a family of scrambler tires right on the tracks of the legendary Goodyear Grasshopper, capable of doing it all: ample grip on the road with a tread pattern that will get you out of the deepest ruts off the road.
The Bates tires Baja are the product of Bates’ long experience on diverse gravel, dirt and mud pistas, highways and Autobahns on several continents. For continuous quality control we use them on our daily riders.
We’re having these low profile section tires produced to the highest technical standards for newer Bikes. The available wheel sizes can be freely combined. Your next late model scrambler project should be awesome.
The tires are certified for speeds up to 190 kph, so you can legally scramblerize your 1200 Sportster or Softail that needs to be driven off or on the road.

No matter if you race at the Baja California 1000 or if you’re on a short trip to the nearby stone quarry, your Bates Baja bars will be ready for it. And on asphalt, too, they cut a fine figure, respectively the rider, as the Bates Baja bars provide a relaxed and upright seating postion. As you would expect from offroad handlebars they feature a cross bar which does not only give additional strength but also comes in handy to mount a GPS system, map holder, accessory bag, etc.

Perfect for your ignition key. Made from tough but soft, non-scratch rubber material.