Huggers

[Big Lee]

Re: Swing arm protection

Won't the water have almost completed a revolution of the wheel by the time it gets to the swing arm / shock join and therefore not much extra protection will be gained by extending it? Or am I missing something obvious/

Like the drops keep falling back onto the wheel and are centrifuged aound?

I think the main purpose of a hugger is to keep water etc from directly spraying onto any important bike components like bearings etc & to keep the rider as clean as possible. The Wunderlich hugger IMO doesn`t do that, the water from a tyre doesn`t just stop spraying off when it gets that far round, ever ridden a bicycle in the rain with no mudguard, it sprays up high doesn`t it? So the hugger isn`t long enough past the bearing & as such gets a lot of muck on it, it also isn`t wide enough to stop the wet tyre spraying water all over the riders boot. I had a NWS hugger fitted to my Daytona 955i for over 4 years & it was noticable how much cleaner the bikes shock , linkages & my boots were after a wet ride than mates with either short huggers or none at all.
IMO huggers are a road going accessory & the unsprung weight they add for the benefits you get is worth it

 

[Paul Wakefield]

Ilmberger distributed the UK by Sandbar Composites

Yep - those are the ones NOG are supplying I think.

Paul

 

[Colin O]

Re: Re: Swing arm protection

........ the water from a tyre doesn`t just stop spraying off when it gets that far round,

To see what really does happen, put bike on centrestand, start engine and put in 2nd gear (take precautions of course, helper with hands on front brake & clutch).

Let the bike tick over in gear with the wheel turning and trickle water from a hose on to the tyre tread at the BOTTOM of the wheel. Watch where it goes - it quite enlightening!

This is only equivalent to about 15 mph, imagine what's happening at more realistic speeds....

 

[Enduro T]

home-made hugger....

I just made myself a hugger from a rubber mat, cut to fit just behind the rear shock. I tied the mat to the frame with some of these plastic cords coppers use as handcuffs (don't know the exact word for these things... ). Now the battery is completely shielded from mud thrown up by the rear wheel. I'll have to test it in the field (to be taken literally), but am confident that it'll work just fine.
Might not look as good as these wundrlich huggers, but hey, it only cost me 8 EUR as opposed to 200 EUR...I 'm getting fed up with these overpriced gizmos.... GS itself was already expensive enough...
(But what a bike though!!! )

So y'all go out there and by rubber mats!!!

Greetings,

T

 

[TheJoker]

Re: home-made hugger....

...I tied the mat to the frame with some of these plastic cords coppers use as handcuffs (don't know the exact word for these things... ).

Well done, T!
I'm not going to spend more than £100 on a hugger, even if the exclusive ones out there look very good.

Any chance of a picture or two?

They're called zip-ties or cable-ties... Part of the McGyver toolbox, along with steel wire and jesus-tape[1] (because it can fix everything!)



[1] Also known as Duct-tape (or Duck tape) and Gaffer tape.

 

[Cone Bolt]

Re: home-made hugger....

So y'all go out there and buy rubber mats!!!

Went that route myself, works a treat. £1.99 in local market. Can buy a lot of mats for the price of a hugger, but I'm sure vanity will get me in the end and I'll buy a hugger.

 

[njgt]

Re: the wunderlich catalogue...

hello,

for those who don't know, www.wunderlich.de has a page dedicated to the r1200gs. it is in pdf format and unfortunately it is DEUTSCHE! but the pictures are more or less self explanatory.

on a section of the catalogue, there are CARBON everything for the 12gs. you name it, they have it.

bloody expensive!

the all black carbonised gs12 looks the business. i wonder how much it will cost us to have the same?

happy riding.

p.s. eventually picked my bike up yesterday and 50 miles is shown on the odometer.....not a lot i know, but the weather up here is shite-muslim just now.

Try http://www.wunderlich.de/download/part1.pdf this seems to be in English though it took some time to down load on a broadband 1mb conection!! so don't try on a modem or you'll be waiting till next Christmas!!

 

[John Armstrong]

Re: Re: the wunderlich catalogue...

Try http://www.wunderlich.de/download/part1.pdf this seems to be in English though it took some time to down load on a broadband 1mb conection!! so don't try on a modem or you'll be waiting till next Christmas!!

Do you work for SPC? They're on the same revision of the catalogue that the link goes to. As in spot the 1200 GS in it!

 

[dgardel]

Just one last q: Exactly where is the forward mounting point?

it's fixed by the reaction arm screw and the fender has a little bronze bearing (note that the arm and the fender have relative motion whet the suspension is compressed or released).

PAY ATTENTION because the first fender release hasn't the bearing and the relative motion release the arm screw.

The builder is http://www.ilmberger-carbon.de/



Daniele

p.s. I have installed it

 

[Mouse]

Re: Re: home-made hugger....

Went that route myself, works a treat. £1.99 in local market.

89p in Wilcos, gonna try this myself