That means you don't stand a cat in hells chance of selling it now so best give it me when you eventually prise it off and replace it with REAL carbon ( just had a @nigelrb moment there ) I'll give you 4 Spam fritters and some riding lessons for it
I would love that Lozzy I need some lessons( we are talking about your tattoo again arn’t we) I have got the original little rear hugger as well, came with the bike
Why do we call it a rear hugger? ...on anything else it'd be the back mudguard - which is what my dad called it when i was swapping mine over
have a vote for fake on Me. To me they do a job, fake or real doesn't matter, i have a fake one on my Kawasaki but it did come with it Pete
Hugger vs Mudguard Watched a Bike World vid on youtube today where he called it a rear mudguard on a Triumph Speed Twin. Only logic I can muster is that a mudguard is larger and covers a larger arc of the tyre, whereas a hugger is almost only half a mudguard. Other option is that it's just something we use to weed out non bikers
Being more of a literary person, I suspect the word 'hugger' might have derived from the fact it is fixed to the swing arm and therefore 'hugs' the tyre, whereas a mudguard/fender is traditionally fixed to the rear frame and therefore has no independent movement with the wheel. My theory though, loses some effect if we consider the front mudguard/fender which has traditionally (save for scramblers and a few specials) been fixed to the forks and does hug the wheel.
A hugger....sits very close to the wheel & 'hugs' it. A mud guard doesn't. I'm not sure what you'd call that useless bit of oem plastic that usually comes with them!
