muddy wet back!

Hi Chaps,
I am convinced that a mud guard will not bring any of us a satisfactory result.
To me it is a matter of design. ( you may call it design fault.)
The frame gets very slim towards the rear.
Have a close look at the shape of the rear of the Hyper and the fender.
The shape of the rear frame and the shape of the fender is the main problem.
The fender does not cover the whole tire, hence the water is sprayed up towards
the driver as the frame at that very point does not cover the fender/tire as well
The tire is somewhat exposed. ( you need to look from the top of the seat down )
I believe the water comes from both sides failing to be stopped, nothing there to deflect .
In Germany we have larger number plates, which in theory should act as a mudguard.
Still you get wet…
Please correct me if I am wrong

Greets Stephan

Plausible. I ride with bags 99% of the time and rarely notice any spray when riding in the wet and the bags do obviously get very grimey on the bottoms. It is also possible that the frame narrows in the rear to keep the width with panniers manageable, however, I think it is identical to the Motards, which came first.

Guys,

I see it this way all the option are to ugly for me so I get dirty and if the jacket is to dirty I wash it!

Gruss Steffen

Seriously, Bruder. Helps hide the bug guts.

Guy said:

[SIZE="4] I've done 300 miles since I picked it up three weeks ago, none of them on dry roads!! Paulm900 is right the rear tyre is wider than the hugger and no mudguard! It's supposed to ba built for touring which means all weathers, so who thought that was a good idea in Ducati design! I need to get something sorted to stop road crap going up my back and ruining my bike jacket. Wondering if I can make Multi splash guard fit, with a bit of adaption? Other models of Ducati; Multistrada, Diavel, new Monster, all have splash guards fitted as standard, so Ducati must have found a problem, so why not fit one on the Hyperstrada?

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See my post, #6 in this thread.

I've sent pics of the 'unknown splash guard' from this thread to my dealer, let's see what they come up with.

Update: Tony the parts guy wasted a lot of time to find nothing in the Ducati parts lists that matches. Must be from something else?

First of all this isn't Ducati's touring machine, if you wanted to cross continents in comfort through any weather the multistrada is you're machine, i bought the hyper because I wanted to cross state lines in comfort and give the sportbike guys a run for their money when I got there. These are the compromises we took when we bought the smaller more nimble bike. Not to mention this bikes lines are dead sexy, I even put a rear hugger off the SP on my bike because its smaller.

It is obviously not a Grand Touring machine. Best category would be Sport Touring or Adventure bike. If you did buy it intending to tour great distances with heavy loads, you by now have realized that it's time for a Multistrada.

apples and oranges

I could have had a Multi. But I did not want the 80 pounds of extra weight or the 50% higher price. I have no plans to ride to Alaska. If I want to go long distances with a heavy load, I already have a Harley - and a Miata. I have never had any bike with less splash protection.

The Hyper sales brochure has a series of pics of a couple on a Hyperstrada touring on what looks like the Adriatic coast. I'm sure it rains there sometimes...

Ducati is missing a sales opportunity, they could easily come up with some improved parts and get lots of money for them.

I know a lot of people who would buy good products