Skidmarx rear hugger#

Mon Apr 14 16:38:11 2025

view of the left hand side of the rear of a motorcle. A shiny black fibreglass mudguard has been added that covers half of the rear wheel. The passenger footpeg has been removed to allow fitting I bought this Skidmarx rear hugger back in August but when I (perhaps foolishly) asked my insurer about it they said it would add £200 to my premium so I didn't fit it then. Fast forward to renewal time, at which time I told the insurer I had a hugger and crash bungs and braided brake lines (which I haven't even ordered yet but intend to) and it made all of about £3 difference to the renewal price, so yesterday I added this to the bike.

right hand side of the bike, taken from the rear looking forward. the rear brake hose is sticking out to the side instead of running straight ahead from caliper to pedal top of the wheel, shoing very marginal clearance between the tyre and the hugger it's almost rubbing on

Fitting was a little bit involved because I had to remove one of the rear footpegs which meant removing the rear fairing to get access to the nut it's attached with, but nothing particularly complicated. Having said that I'm a little disappointed, to be honest:

it naturally wants to sit against the rear tyre. When I fitted it yesterday I had to bend it to create a gap between hugger and tyre, and then tighten all the bolts while it was under tension. Looking at the photo I've just taken, it seems to have moved back to almost rubbing again, which is worrying
I had to remove the cable guide for the rear brake hose which used to run along the top of the swingarm. They provide P-clips as replacement, but the clips aren't long enough to route the hose along the top of the swingarm as it was before - instead it takes this more sinuous route which just looks silly
although the surfaces you can see are polished fibreglass and look quite shiny, the edges are just raw and unfinished. You can only see that close up though

I'm having very little success with web searches for "P clip with long arm" or similar terms, but perhaps I could instead use some kind of adhesive-backed cable clip that sticks to the top of the hugger (something like https://www.startech.com/en-gb/cables/cbmcc3))

As for the clearance, I think I need to take it off again and see if I can enlarge the screw holes to give a bit more range for moving it about.

I read https://www.als-place.co.uk/hornet/how_to/hugger.php?page=0 before starting and it reminds me of the web sites of yesteryear. In a good way! Written by a human for humans (not an AI for SEO), not a forum post or a youtube video, describing something they've done so that others may benefit