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Hugger



I had a hugger fitted to the Sprint ST, from new by the dealer, and the
other day noticed that it had been fouling the tyre due to a loose
fixing. I've tightened the bolt up but it still seems very close to
the tyre.

Of course, as the dealer fitted it, I don't have any instructions - not
that fitting a hugger should need any, but it might be mice to see if
there's any info on the fixings or whether there should be some
spacers, etc.

How much gap should there be, as a minimum, between the tyre and the
hugger? I can easily get my finger in the gap on the left-hand side,
but not the right.
My ZX-9R's is close enough so that after a track day, the "shaggy" edges
of the tyre brush against it.


I'm going to pop back to the dealer on Saturday, just to make sure as
I'm not 100% happy with it at the moment. I guess also I should get
them to give me an original chain guard in case I ever need to remove
the hugger for any length of time.

Catman (and the other poster who's got an ST but I can't remember his
name): got a hugger on yours?
Sorry I missed this. No hugger as yet, but I have a Skidmarx job
sitting at my Ye Olde Bike Shoppe just waiting for this software release
to be done.