DRZ400 Tail Tidy

The factory DRZ400 tail assembly is horrendously large. The only benefit it offers is that if your bike gets stuck near a river, you can take the factory tail assembly off, turn it upside down, and use it as a boat to go and seek help! Aside from the fact it is large, it is also very ugly.

There are a number of DRZ400 tail tidy options on the market, some are good, some are not so good. After building up four DRZ400 bikes as adventure bikes, I tried a few aftermarket ones and decided that for this DRZ400 adventure build that was being shipped to Australia, I would modify a tail tidy and incorporate the factory indicators.

While the factory DRZ400 indicators are slightly on the large side, they do have the following benefits:

• For factory indicators, they have a reasonably nice design
• They are rubber mounted and handle drops and crashes very well
• They are made from high quality plastic and rubber so they don’t fade or crack like cheap options
• They have good seals to stop muck getting inside the indicator
• They are bright and easy to see for following riders and oncoming traffic
• They take common sized bulbs that are available almost everywhere and quick to replace 
• They are correctly E marked so there are no issues with local and international vehicle fitness and licensing tests plus they don’t risk voiding insurance policies like non-E marked indicators.

Below is how I modified an old tail tidy and incorporated the factor indicators. There was a lot of work and a bit of welding involved, to be fair it would be a lot easier just getting the Yoshimura Fender Eliminator Kit which looks exactly the same and is a bolt on option.

Yoshimura Fender Eliminator Kit

If you want to tidy up the rear of your DRZ400, keep using the factory indicators, and avoid the involved process above of customising your own, then the Yoshimura DRZ400 rear fender eliminator kit is a good bolt-and-go option.