Tail tidy

[Irishman]

Hi which tail tidy is the easiest to fit on the t7?

[Landshark]

I used the Camel Adv. tail tidy and it works well, was fairly easy to install (no curse moments) and looks great.

 

T7 Tail Tidy (T7-TT)

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My oh my, the factory signal light, license plate holder on the T7 is ugly, brittle, huge... and did I mention ugly?! On our first dirt ride on the new T7, we hooked a branch and snapped one of the plastic brackets, yikes. Our tail tidy...

 

[Hammerhead]

Went Camel also. There were fewer options for the earliest North American bikes at the time.  Added a piece of plastic under it to retain some fender effect. & fit the stock reflector to it. Some options may look a little more stylish but once they lop the tail so short you wind up with mud on the tail light,  pillion seat & your back their purpose is defeated. It needs to retain its fender capacity for me & the Camel unit does that reasonably well.

[Rossy NI]

£40 on eBay. 

[Hammerhead]

Ya, those are affordable & stylishly short… provided you don’t want any rear fender coverage. 

[Irishman]

Looks like camel use original number plate light so plug and play 

[jdub53]

20 hours ago, Irishman said:

Hi which tail tidy is the easiest to fit on the t7?

I think only someone who has installed items from several vendors could really answer that question.

 

Having said that, I considered many before deciding on the Tusk unit for my T7. Straightforward installation for me, but at the time I didn't like/didn't understand the very highly angled plate design. Because of that, prior to installation I bent the plate mount section downward a bit. Only after riding in mud where the taillight got coated did I understand the reason behind the angled design, so I'm going to bend it back.

 

[Mike99]

I made my own tail tidy, I was looking at a picture of the camel one and realised it's just a flat plate with a few bends, I made a cardboard template and cut it out of galvanised plate, a few bends and a coat of satin black and to my eye looks fine, this was a lock down boredom project as opposed to an attempt to save money 

[Robo]

I went the B&B one and was pretty happy with it, wasn’t too complicated to fit but in my opinion is maybe the most solid of the options. 

[frivoloushobby]

Adventure spec tidy. Uses some of the original setup. I like it. Not quite as minimalist as some others but it does retain some of the plastics underneath to keep some of the wiring cleaner from dirt and road grime

[Irishman]

13 hours ago, Mike99 said:

I made my own tail tidy, I was looking at a picture of the camel one and realised it's just a flat plate with a few bends, I made a cardboard template and cut it out of galvanised plate, a few bends and a coat of satin black and to my eye looks fine, this was a lock down boredom project as opposed to an attempt to save money 

That’s a great job looks perfect

 

[andy74rc]

Finished to mount the Aliexpress tail tidy. With couple of mods:

1) I added a 5cmx18cm - 3mm thick alu plate, mounted with 3 rivets, to be used as 3rd mounting point for the plate holder.

2) the tail tidy leaves 2 holes on the sides of the rear light. I made a covering plate from 1mm thick Lexan and painted black from the inside (after dulling it with 240 grit sandpaper). I copy here the template if somebody is interested.

3) I chopped the turn signal mounts and drilled 10mm holes instead. This tail tidy is steel. HARD. Had to sharpen the bits 3 times to drill through!

 

 

 

[Charles De Mar]

Camel adventure