Why is everyone removing the rear guard?

Just about every sports bike I see now has the rear guard and No plate
bracket removed and their plate mounted up high under the tail, pipes or
even back behind the rear wheel hugger................

Whats the go????????????????????????

 

It's so that you can ride out of where ever you start from, with the
number plate visible, then, once you feel like enjoying yourself, you
can reach back and flip the number plate up, so it isn't visible.

You, hopefully, reverse the process when you are getting ready to stop
someplace.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I thought it was just a "looks" kind of thing.

 

they saw americans doing it.. so since we are now a state of USA, they
do it too.

 

Because race bikes don't have mudguards. It's purely for looks....blows
chunks when you have a stripe of mud up your back.

justAL

 

aaaaaaargh! Sounds like a good reason not to....

betty, seceding from the 51st state of the US

 

Funny to watch in traffic with their Fila jackets gettin filthy.
Suppose they just bash and rob someone else to get a new one lmao

 

That's just poor planning. I don't think the average rider with a
fender eliminator is likely to ride in/on anything resembling mud or
even wet roads.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX

 

I believe there was a shortage of things to complain about on the
sportsbike forums, so they needed to come up with a new way for the
police to hassle them so they then could complain about police
harrasment.

either that or something to do with foolly sik moite

mh

 

I like this answer the best.

 

I don't think the average rider with a fender eliminator is likely to ride in/on anything resembling mud or even wet roads.
So if you have a "fender eliminator" you become a fairweather wanker
instead?

 

When you put the plate back there, it's perfectly visible to the rear,
but from higher up, say speed camera level, the tail or pipes obscures
the view. Have no idea how legal the setup is though. I don't
imagine police officers take kindly to that sort of thing.

 

Fine then Nev you pendantic freak!
Let's make it a strip of rubber then!

justAL

 

I thought it had something to do with being able to remove the rear
wheel to change the tyre more easily, but then I guess most of the
riders of such bikes just get the shop to do it...

 

I heard something about how it came out as a recommendation by a big
qourum and a peak body survey commissioned when it was noticed that
sanctimony levels had dropped to a historic low...

 

Untermensch wrote...

Dunno. But I've yet to figure out what the hugger thing is for, or what benefit
it offers.

Sort of like oggy knobs, I s'pose, or back in the old days, engine protection
bars or full on crash bars, even.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:07:50 +1100

Legal ones - there are rules about tyre coverage, huggers can meet
said rules.

Aso stops crap hitting the shock. And can keep muddy water from wet
roadworks from spraying the rider's legs, but I dunno that's a
consideration for most sportbike riders.

Zebee