I used some spare heater core hose on mine. Used the washers and anti seize as well.

No issues and it takes a beating.

Ricochet, cycle rack, and highway dirt bike handguards makes the bike darn near indestructable.

 

Did you split the hose and wrap it around the frame tubes?

 

have a 2020 300r stock exhaust coming Thursday

 

yup...

 

I installed my new Motech skid plate. It came with five rubber buttons to isolate the plate from the frame of the bike. I also swapped the factory stock rear shock spring with a new 6.6

spring. The YouTube video on adjusting the sag really helped out. I set both compression and damping about midway for each and have about 4-1/2" of preload from the middle of the upper shock eye to the top of the new spring. Geared up with my fat butt on the bike this gave me just over 2-1/2" of sag, which is close to the recommended 25% of sag.
Finished off by installing the rear rack to carry the essentials....beer, chips, etc. Took the bike for a short ride and did not notice any additional noise or vibration after installing the new skid plate.

 

Installed my Krieger cam chain tensioner .Much quieter now!
And buffing out scratches on my fender.

 

What did you use for a polishing/buffing compound? Looks good.

 

Just regular old polishing compound. I think they're all the same. My problem is my buffer i too heavy to hold with one hand. Going to get a smaller one with a wool pad today. Maybe try my mini dremel one?

 

new muffler just about done