Huggers

[nickj]

evening all,

Just wondered what peoples opinions on the best huggers are.

[SPeeeeDY]

on the K3 onwards i think the official suzuki hugger is the best, anyone know where to get one at a sensible price.

Also Colggsy has an ART hugger which looks the dogs danglys see the link Cloggsy's bike (http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=17958url)

[nickj]

I like Cloggsy's one, need one for a 99-02 curvy so i might see if they do one.

[H-Gerickemark]

skidmarx one are pretty good value.


about £70 I think?????

[Cloggsy]

about £70 I think?????

Mine was free... But the less said about that the better :evil: :evil: :evil:

TW@s :evil:

£120 retail :roll:

[nickj]

about £70 I think?????

Mine was free... But the less said about that the better :evil: :evil: :evil:

TW@s :evil:

£120 retail :roll:

Come on cloggsy, you must have known we'd ask, what happened :wink:

[GC-SV]

I have to agree with Speeeedy, the Suzuki 1 is hard to beat especially for fit and finish.
Although I do rate Ermax but didn't want to take a chance on Colour match.

[Cloggsy]

Come on cloggsy, you must have known we'd ask, what happened :wink:

I'll see if the threads are still there :roll:

[Carsick]

Ermax and the OEM ones are very nice for the pointies. Colour match seems good on the Ermax.
There are some nice 3rd party ones for the curvies, but I can't think of any names.

[Cloggsy]

All the ART threads have gone :cry:

Basically (to cut a very long story short :roll:) I lent ART my bike for a week in May '04 to make a pattern for the Carbon Fibre & alloy hugger...

Eventually, after many many phone calls to Mr Chris White (MD) & 6 months of waiting I eventually took delivery of the said hugger (I had to go & collect it myself from their factory on my way back from the NEC biks show) & from then on I vowed NEVER to buy anything from ART for my bike... Don't get me wrong, the hugger is lovely (although I had to elongate some of the holes to fit it to my machine etc etc, but ART are a joke - they have the customer service skills of a sweaty flip-flop IMHO :roll:

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/hugger1.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/hugger2.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/hugger3.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/hugger4.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted1.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted2.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted3.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted4.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted5.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted6.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted7.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted8.jpg

http://www.clivegoodwin.dsl.pipex.com/huggerfitted10.jpg

Sorry the pics are a bit dark, it was quite late when I finished taking 'em...

Look at the link in my sig for more pics :wink:

P.S. No comments about my chicken strips :roll: :oops:

[nickj]

Sounds a nightmare but worth the wait in my opinion. That does look the mutts nuts.

[SPeeeeDY]

that hugger is sweet. I would get one, but i wouldnt want to use mailorder. i would want to pay on collection, but i dont think that that is gonna happen.

Ohh well, i think the official suzuki hugger will have to do :(

[Cloggsy]

i would want to pay on collection, but i dont think that that is gonna happen.

Worse thing was, they were knocking them out at the NEC for £100 too :roll: :evil:

They come 'flat pack', you have to build 'em up y'self :wink:

[PoRk ChOp]

Ohh well, i think the official suzuki hugger will have to do :(

SPeeeeDY - The Ermax hugger is much cheaper and the colour match is spot on 8)

[Anonymous]

May I stick my hand up and say that the best looking hugger is no hugger. Keep it nude for that nice moto-stylee.

I hate them personally. On black I think you can get away with it and maybe silver but on colours TOO much plastic...and sometimes off colour matches too.

On a later bike theres a little flap to keep the worst of the shock, and crap only goes on the undertray. It all still needs a clean.

Just my MO, of course, but an alternative view point.

[SPeeeeDY]

i only realy want one to help protect my undertray from stone chips!

I think if i dont get an official suzuki hugger, i will just get an aftermarket one in black :)


SPeeeeDY

[Anonymous]

i only realy want one to help protect my undertray from stone chips!

I think if i dont get an official suzuki hugger, i will just get an aftermarket one in black :)


SPeeeeDY

That they do. I ahd a fair few chips up near the lights, but I never bothered with an undertray just a fender eliminator so it was all matt black underneath so you didnt notice. Black hugger/silver bike....is Sir sure?

[SPeeeeDY]

i have seen a silver curvey SVS with a black hugger and that looked alright,


I will only get black if it is an aftermarket hugger, official suzuki hugger will be colour matched


SPeeeeDY

Has anyone bought one of them SV huggers off E-bay from Banditmania?
Are they a good fit / colour match???