Why I hate tail tidies
Discussion
Carlososos said:
I thought rear huggers were meant to stop the rubbish flying up? I loved my tail tidy. It made my tail look tidy.
Huggers do stop the underside of the tail of the bike getting filthy but they don't stop the spray from the rear of the tyre that ends up all over your jacket and helmet and ends up running down the back of your neck.Jazoli said:
I agree, they are a stupid invention made for gixxer riders who only go out when the sun is shining with no chance of rain, I have removed plenty off bikes I've bought and would never fit another as they are form over function and not fit for purpose.
Form over function? They're not even that - there is no "form"; they just look gash, most have a tiny little bracket that leaves the plate jammed, flapping, up against the tailpiece, invariably at an odd angle. They just look really Heath-Robinson. R&G - I'm looking at you.This sort of thing.....
or check out this aesthetic masterpiece.....
Dog Star said:
Jazoli said:
I agree, they are a stupid invention made for gixxer riders who only go out when the sun is shining with no chance of rain, I have removed plenty off bikes I've bought and would never fit another as they are form over function and not fit for purpose.
Form over function? They're not even that - there is no "form"; they just look gash, most have a tiny little bracket that leaves the plate jammed, flapping, up against the tailpiece, invariably at an odd angle. They just look really Heath-Robinson. R&G - I'm looking at you.This sort of thing.....
or check out this aesthetic masterpiece.....
Carlososos said:
I thought rear huggers were meant to stop the rubbish flying up? I loved my tail tidy. It made my tail look tidy.
The issue with modern bikes is that they've made the seat units smaller so the rear wheel is now exposed, I think by law that the bodywork has o extend beyond the back wheel, to get around this manufacturers fit huge/long plate holders to extend the bike but knowing full well it will get replaced with a tail tidy and provide the aesthetics that they originally intended.I have to agree, I've never fitted one in 20+ years until my current SDR1290R because the numberplate was a good foot on a bracket to meet the above, it does look much better but I have exactly the same crap on my back now.
I dont like them either, unless you have a gopping back end that has those awful US 'fenders', having said that, I'm not entirely sure they stop your back getting filthy, as you're sat on top of the bike, forward of the back wheel, isn't more of that to do with low pressure behind you sucking it into your back? Ir is the lack of TT to break up that low pressure creating the issue?
Freakuk said:
Carlososos said:
I thought rear huggers were meant to stop the rubbish flying up? I loved my tail tidy. It made my tail look tidy.
The issue with modern bikes is that they've made the seat units smaller so the rear wheel is now exposed, I think by law that the bodywork has o extend beyond the back wheel, to get around this manufacturers fit huge/long plate holders to extend the bike but knowing full well it will get replaced with a tail tidy and provide the aesthetics that they originally intended.I have to agree, I've never fitted one in 20+ years until my current SDR1290R because the numberplate was a good foot on a bracket to meet the above, it does look much better but I have exactly the same crap on my back now.
It's a form over function lunacy because every manufacturer seems to want to design a MotoGP bike...then apparently gets surprised after it's all been signed because they have to fit indicators, tail lights, reflectors and a registration plate. So they hand it to the work experience lad to knock something up on Friday while they go down the pub and then sign off his 10 minutes of half arsed s
tty work after a heavy liquid lunch because no one gives a fk and all the promotional photos will be taken without it. They are almost without exception utter gash. Stupid w
ky registration plate on a stick because the tail is too fking small. Or worse the abortion that is the stupid "thing" hanging off the swingarm. fk them all. The regulations should not be a surprise. f
k the MotoGP replicas. Design something that looks good *while* taking the regulations into account not something that only looks good after you've ripped massive bits of plastic off. It's not rocket science. 
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