What did you do to your bike today?

ZedPowered · 2 Jul 2015 at 08:16

Spent the evening fitting my new SP Quickshifter. A bargain on ebay! And then took it for a nice blast on the motorway on the way into work today. Time to book Silverstone...

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 13:23

Rode it to work this afternoon to start my half day afternoon, absolutely ****ing glorious quiet roads wanted to ride straight out the other side of the office car park and just keep going.

MowyTone · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:16

tom_e said:
Rode it to work this afternoon to start my half day afternoon, absolutely ****ing glorious quiet roads wanted to ride straight out the other side of the office car park and just keep going.

I ride most lunch times at the moment and I have to admit I find myself trying to justify not coming back

wazza300 · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:25

its nice to ride just as its getting dark,much cooler breeze

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:28

Plan for this evening is enjoy the ride home, lock the baby bike up for the night, get a nice ice cold cider out the fridge unwrap the SV and bask in the sun while fitting a rear hugger.

MowyTone · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:30

tom_e said:
Plan for this evening is enjoy the ride home, lock the baby bike up for the night, get a nice ice cold cider out the fridge unwrap the SV and bask in the sun while fitting a rear hugger.

You are so lucky to have a K3. Have you seen the price difference between a K1 hugger and a K3+ hugger on ebay?

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:34

MowyTone said:
You are so lucky to have a K3. Have you seen the price difference between a K1 hugger and a K3+ hugger on ebay?

I haven't how much we talking?
To be fair though this one hasn't been plain sailing, first it arrived from demon tweaks with none of the fitting apart from a bit of sticky foam to go between the hugger a swing arm but I tried fitting it using the existing chain guard and brake hose guide bolts and it was catching the tyre on the offside so I got onto them and skidmarx sent me the packet of fixings which apparently should fix that issue although I don't see how so I've bought some 5mm nylon spacers to fit under the offside just to raise it ever so slightly as it doesn't rub until you tighten that side down fully.
So we'll see how it goes, and then see how long it lasts

MowyTone · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:37

tom_e said:
I haven't how much we talking?

Cheapest one I've seen with all fixings is £90 or £120 for the 'carbon' one

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:41

MowyTone said:
Cheapest one I've seen with all fixings is £90 or £120 for the 'carbon' one

Not a huge difference then mine was £80 just for standard GRP and that was about the best price I seen.

MowyTone · 3 Jul 2015 at 15:03

tom_e said:
Not a huge difference then mine was £80 just for standard GRP and that was about the best price I seen.

I saw 2nd hand ones going for £30-£40 for a K3+ on the bay

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 15:06

MowyTone said:
I saw 2nd hand ones going for £30-£40 for a K3+ on the bay

All the ones I seen 2nd hand either didn't come with fittings (although I've pretty much had to source my own anyway

) or were battered scratched or cracked in one place or another and apart from the fact it's got '05 on the plate you'd never be able to tell it wasn't brand new from it's condition to be honest so I didn't mind spending out.

MowyTone · 3 Jul 2015 at 15:07

Fair enough. Seems we are both doomed when it comes to huggers then

Craig321 · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:10

wazza300 said:
its nice to ride just as its getting dark,much cooler breeze

Apart from the bugs!

I come back covered after a dusk ride

wazza300 · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:17

sure they don't bolt straight to your original chain guard brackets tom? mine does on my zx6 (its like a chain guard and hugger all in one)

and yh bugs are a pain,esp if you like a nice clean machine

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:23

wazza300 said:
sure they don't bolt straight to your original chain guard brackets tom? mine does on my zx6 (its like a chain guard and hugger all in one)

and yh bugs are a pain,esp if you like a nice clean machine

Yep it does.
It's fine on the chain guard side, but the other size where it bolts under the rear brake line holder when I tighten that fully up it pulls it down literally a couple of mm too low so it's catching the tyre so the plan is just to raise it slightly on that side with a nylon spacer on the bolt then a couple glued down the rest of the lip on that side once I get the height right.

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:29

arfoll said:
My powerbronze hugger on my SV SK6 was the same, just about managed with a washer to get it on with a few mm each side. Mentioned it to a mate, he looked at it for one second, and just bent the metal bracket a bit, perfect alignment. Felt like a right numpty!

I'm not sure what yours is like but basically my fitting on the brake line side has a small metal brack that you screw on to the brake line holder, just bend that a bit either way and perfect.

Mine uses the bracket that's already there then that just gets tightened down on top of the hugger into the swingarm.

tom_e · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:34

arfoll said:
Ah right, I guess all you can do is put a spacer on it then, weird though how are the vibrations from the swingarm dampened? I'm assuming that hugger won't live long... What brand/model?

It comes with a little strip of sticky back foam that you're supposed to attach under where the hugger meets the swingarm although by the time you tighten it down I'd imagine it's so compressed it's next to useless for vibration damping.
It's a skidmarx one, http://www.skidmarx.co.uk/suzuki/40510-suzuki-sv650s-faired-2003-k3-rear-hugger-grp.html

Yaayuh! · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:37

wazza300 said:
its nice to ride just as its getting dark,much cooler breeze

Better first thing i think

if you can be arsed to be up early.