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Old 10-03-18, 08:42 AM   #1
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Default Dirty bike

I like my L7 but there's one thing that annoys me; it gets dirty very quickly. I was out yesterday the roads were dry with the exception of two small streams running across the road from snow melt. They were surface water and only about 6 feet wide. The bike looks like I've been driving through a muddy river bed.

I have a mudguard extender, a mudflap and a mudflap extender (ok, I know, I know), I also have the world's largest SV hugger.

The brief aquatic incursion sprayed across both fork legs, on top of the mudguard (!), dirtied both sides of radiator shroud, both engine cases, leading edge of silencer. Dirty water appeared on top of the WLH (world's largest hugger), all over the rear light cluster and on the rear seat shrouds. Courtesy of my mudflap configuration, the front exhaust stayed clean (hah!)

I've had a couple of curvies, one of which was in this country, and it didn't dirty up so quickly, neither did my street triple and it didn't have a mudguard extender.

I want bigger or better mudguards.

Last edited by Seeker; 10-03-18 at 08:43 AM. Reason: missed a word
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