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Rear huggers

#1 Post by fatboy » Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:08 pm

Who makes the apart from Skidmarx ?
At £80 something the Skidmarx is a bit off budget at the mo,wondering if there are any cheaper alternatives worth bothering with ?
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#2 Post by blinkey501 » Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:27 pm

fatboy wrote:Who makes the apart from Skidmarx ?
At £80 something the Skidmarx is a bit off budget at the mo,wondering if there are any cheaper alternatives worth bothering with ?
Not sure on price but try these
http://www.pyramid-plastics.co.uk/
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#3 Post by fatboy » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:13 pm

Thanks Blinkey, had a look earlier, only a few £ cheaper than Skids but look a bit better.
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#4 Post by blinkey501 » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:27 am

fatboy wrote:Thanks Blinkey, had a look earlier, only a few £ cheaper than Skids but look a bit better.
Got a meeting with bank as they have charged me £125 for a cock up which is not my doing !
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I have a pyramid plastics hugger and from what I have been reading they fit better than the skidmarx equivalent.
That includes fitting a 190/55 section rear tyre, the clearance is slightly better.
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#5 Post by D-Rider » Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:52 am

When I had a Falco swinging arm on mine I had an NWS carbon-fibre hugger.
Nice bit of kit ..... but they don't make them any more. Sorry.
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#6 Post by MartDude » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:07 pm

D-Rider wrote:When I had a Falco swinging arm on mine I had an NWS carbon-fibre hugger.
Nice bit of kit ..... but they don't make them any more. Sorry.
Some of the NWS stuff was made by Pyramid anyway; or so a Pyramid rep at a show told me.
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#7 Post by D-Rider » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:39 pm

MartDude wrote:
D-Rider wrote:When I had a Falco swinging arm on mine I had an NWS carbon-fibre hugger.
Nice bit of kit ..... but they don't make them any more. Sorry.
Some of the NWS stuff was made by Pyramid anyway; or so a Pyramid rep at a show told me.
Interesting - it does look similar (but there again, it's a hugger so it probably would .......)
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#8 Post by back_marker » Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:59 pm

I tried to ring NWS a couple of years ago to order one of their Abba-a-like stands and was told that I had gone straight through to Pyramid. NWS were apparently no longer trading and that they had taken on the plastics side of things. That was from the phone number on the NWS site (which I can no longer find on a Google search).
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