If you ride around your settlement and then accidentally fall, you will reach the house with damaged cover... but if you're 500 miles from home? at night? is not a secret that you can break the original cover if dropped even at low speed .. then what? How much does a tow truck cost and a lot of side things when you're away? so there is a great chance to keep the cover. of course one can argue that the original cover is sturdy and so on.
there is a saying, miser pays twice, fool - thrice...Such protection (also clutch cover and stator cover) is produced for more than 10 models of motorcycles, such as GSX-R750-1000 / CBR 1000RR / Yamaha R1... Clutch cover protection for Blackbird gonna appear soon as well.
All production was tested during fabrication; there were cases on the track when guys were falling at 150-180 km/h. such protection has proved itself on 100 percent in a side slip.
further flood stops, answers will given only on the merits.