Pyramid Plastics are looking for someone with a mandello to do a trial fit/check of their replacement solution for the useless MG hugger OEM
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I’d be happy to help but am a long way away.
Andy May, you know the guys at pyramid…
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I’m on it…
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Has there been any progress on this. With the current weather its ok but come winter it would be nice.
They need to rework it a bit so we don’t have a timeframe yet.
can’t you adapt an existing extender?
I’m reposting in this thread some stuff that is in the Stelvio hugger thread. It’s more appropriate here, but it arose there.
Here’re some ( not very good ) pics of the Pyramid Mandello hugger fitted to my S model.
I think it’s going to be a great feature, though I’ve not ridden it yet. It looks as if it’s going to keep a significant amount of the rubbish off the rest of the machine, and the pillion.
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I should add about the hugger, I like the attention to detail. The kit comes with all stainless fasteners, even the black screws are A2. It should take about 30 minutes to fit, including removal of the original, Guzzi blade ( provided the little Torx screws aren’t corroded into the swing arm ). BTW, that’s so floppy you can see the witness marks underneath from contact with the tyre. It’s important to loosely assemble first to line up all the bolts/nuts, then tighten in situ. Otherwise you’ll need childs’ fingers to get the nuts started. This is all in the instructions, you just need to a) read them and b) follow them. It’s properly rubber mounted, so the grommets are a little tight in the plastic; I wanted to test the instructions properly, so I put them in dry and it took some aggressive finger action to seat them properly, but next time I’d use a touch of red rubber grease ( which is magic potion BTW ) and they should go in easily. The trickiest bit, I’d say, is sorting the cables neatly at the end so that they sit in the Guzzi cable clips untwisted. The clearances are tight there, and twisted cable bunches would likely rub on various bits. Taking some time to line the cables up properly is well worth it, and I’ve included that in the 30 minute fitment time. The result is a well structural seeming blade. The plastic is good and rigid with no sharp edges or roughnesses. And I think it looks like it belongs on the ‘bike, not some plugly looking bodge-on.
I undid the rear wheel nut and dropped the wheel off the axle to check for removal issues. I didn’t bother removing the silencer can but it looked as if the back wheel would come out starightforwardly with no need to undo anything on the hugger.
I’ll post a report with pictures of mud plume after I take it out in ‘weather’ at some point. That’s always the final judgment but it looks to me like a good’un, with a good balance of coverage without becoming structurally unwieldy.
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Mine should be arriving today, I dont think it looks as good as the stock item but it should be considerably more affective than the less than useless stock one. They are not cheap though £133 is a fair chunk for a bit of black plastic.
I appreciate the company has spent time and money to bring this product to market, but £133 !!!, for a piece of plastic, Ali Express etc will have (probably inferior but useable) copies for sale soon
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If you don’t mind supporting IP theft then fill your boots. They just scan other people’s hard work and the produce them out of inferior materials, and folks wonder why China has a ‘wonder’ growth economy…..
I was at the EICMA show about 10 years ago when the Italian fraud service swept the trade areas and lifted the collars of half a dozen Chinese companies for ripping off Italian original components.
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