As modern bikes offer increasingly higher levels of performance the issue of protecting vital components becomes more critical.
More and more cheap copies of good product are hitting websites and bike-shop shelves, and it’s getting tougher to work out what’s solid gold and what’s just bling. Radiator guards are a good example.
There’s no doubt a bike’s radiator is a high-exposure component of a complex system. To perform its function properly a radiator pretty much has to be out there, figuratively, and sometimes quite literally, swinging in the breeze. And because a radiator is a heat exchanger it relies on big surface area and thin-walled channels of fluid.