I was surprised to receive my hugger well before the expected delivery date.
I think it wil do the job for the street bike. The off roader it is obvious a not.
Check the price on the invoice.







It'll work for me.

wait did you really get it for $8?!?!?!O.O or was that just them doing the basic import tax loop holing

No, I paid what e-bay wanted.

Got a link for that one?

The link is the first post on page 1.

Thanks. I missed that. Now the thing is $35.71 USD. Figures.

I have one and it works fine. Cheap too. Givi’s price is unbelievable. I’ve handled both and they are identical. Like, identical.

That was the posted price back when I bought mine it was never $8. That said you can make an offer at a lower price and may save a few bucks. I got mine for $32 plus shipping was just under $50 to my door.

Just curious if anyone in Canada finally got one of these and has some photos to share.

No pictures of my fender at this time, but it is identical to the one others have shared pictures of. The big 170/60 Shinko 705 fills it fairly well, but with plenty of space left. I could stop by sometime later in the week to show it to you in person if you'd like.

My only reason for consideration would be if I wanted to go to tires similar to the big 170/60 Shinko 705, which would mean the front gets changed, I have been running PR-4 on the rear and Dunlop OEM on the front, 90% of my riding is paved road. Seems that in all my riding using street bikes , both times I went down was due to deep ungraded gravel, something a all wheel drive car would have had difficulty in. I like my Skidmarx hugger but am fairly sure the Shinko wouldn't fit .

I ordered two of the China huggers just now. $33 each shipped.

ETA says 11/22/19, but I expect it much sooner than that. I’ll update the thread when they arrive.

I have an idea about the plastic threaded rivet. I’m going to heat the tip of a Philips screw driver and press it into the plastic head, to see I can unscrew it out.

If I have to I’ll use some super glue on the driver and plastic screw to help it hold.

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I was basically getting my Philippine 19’ Versys washed every other day I was there at the two local car washes in my small town.

They were doing road construction to the only road directly out of town. Long sections of road was always wet with red clay, where the road was being repaved 3 ft higher, above flooding height.

Luckily for me the car washes were only $1 to less than $2 (50 to 80 Pesos) to have a guy hand wash the bike spotless. Spent half hour to an hour cleaning the bike. I even left a bottle behind of good car wax and had the guy wax the bike as necessary. Tipped them good. Helping out the local economy.

My SOCAL California daily commuter Versys barely even gets dirty in comparison. The road is hardly ever wet, unless someone’s lawn sprinkler runs too long. I wash it once a month.


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those are required by law in europe. i have one for my caponord. it's on the shelf in the garage. i believe it's to reduce the spray onto the vehicle following you on a wet road. maybe you'd be mistaken for an mv agusta.

Since everyone is adding their two cents worth on rear huggers, heres my home made hugger. I harvested it from my dead 83 Interceptor and retro-fitted it. It helps but if you really want to keep the spring and below area clean you need to add the fasteddie hanging rubber flap.

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Here's some pics of that "hanging rubber flap"....

DSC06440 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC06441 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC06442 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC06443 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC06444 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC06445 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

And then I rode thru some mud, then took some more pics to illustrate the protection it gives!

DSC08592 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC08594 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

DSC08595 by Ed Copeman, on Flickr

STILL working PDG after ALL these years!

I got around to finally install one of these onto one of my Versys last month in the Philippines.

It went on really easy and the quality is very good. It was supplied with some stainless steel hardware (longer mounting bolts for the chain guard and two new mounting bolts).

Just remember the black plastic plug on the right side near the swingarm pivot is actually a plastic screw with a flush/smooth head. I took a needle nose and turned the head counter clockwise a few turns, until I could unscrew it the rest of the way by hand.

I mounted the hugger onto the bike with the rear wheel still mounted.

It did take a while for it to get through US Customs, due to no fault to the seller. It still got to me quicker than the original estimate.

I'll install 2nd hugger on my US Versys, while we are on California lock down for the Kung-Flu virus.