Having ridden the honda for a few weeks on the wet and muddy roads of Norfolk I soon discovered that a favourite collecting point for mud is around the front of the swing-arm and the mounting points for the centre stand, an area which is also borderline impossible to clean without removing the back wheel and plastic mud catcher.

As prevention is better than cure I decided to make myself a kind of crude mudflap, formed from a strip of thick rubber which bolts onto the plastic mud catcher. I also used two of the mounting bolts to attach a flat brace to supplement honda’s inadequate “dowel” type lower mounting on the mud catcher.

Definitely not a thing of beauty, but if it proves successful I shall tidy it up at a later date.