Building for comfort
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Building for comfort
A few years ago I chopped the rear of my bike to do a swing arm mounted fender and spring seat. I love the look and really fought back and forth on if I should change my bike up. Problem I have is the spring seat was killing my rear and taking the fun out of riding. First I started with adding floor boards which help me a lot considering I am short and they allowed me more wiggle room. Floor boards just wasn't enough to get me back on the bike for long distances. I need to get rid of the spring seat which meant getting rid of my swing arm mounted fender.
Where I started
Since I chopped the frame horns off to go with the swing arm mounted fender I had to add bolt on inner struts. I don't recommend anyone chopping their horns off cause getting the bolt on frame struts to work is a pain
Unfortunately my rear tire is off center by about 1/2 inch so to center my new fender over my tire I will be making spacer plates out of 6061 aluminum.
I had to do a lot of cutting and grinding on the fender I picked to get it to look how I wanted. I have it mocked up now and think it will look good when I am done. All I have left is making the inner strut plates and some paint and powder coat
I will be using a chopped black line seat for this project
Where I started
Since I chopped the frame horns off to go with the swing arm mounted fender I had to add bolt on inner struts. I don't recommend anyone chopping their horns off cause getting the bolt on frame struts to work is a pain
Unfortunately my rear tire is off center by about 1/2 inch so to center my new fender over my tire I will be making spacer plates out of 6061 aluminum.
I had to do a lot of cutting and grinding on the fender I picked to get it to look how I wanted. I have it mocked up now and think it will look good when I am done. All I have left is making the inner strut plates and some paint and powder coat
I will be using a chopped black line seat for this project
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Looking good man, what a pain in the *** to change these things back!! Quick thought, I see those struts you had on the other fender is there anyway to bring those up and use them to support the fender instead of using the aluminum? Maybe you can run those to the back and get a inner fender brace from krafttech? I could be wrong but I think you have enough support just with the inners to carry a passenger the outer struts don't do much. So much fun right?? LOL
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Unfortunately the swing arm moves so I can't use the old struts. Things are rough looking now cause I have not done the finishing work on the struts and since there is no color on the parts things look out of place. Once the tail lights get mounted up and the color gets added things will look good
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Dad always said...don't ever sell your stock parts. Never know when you or someone else may want to put it back to original.
Unfortunately for that, traded in the old low rider and now have a garage full of stock dyna parts
Though from how you had that originally, I would have tried to get top dollar for it and get something new that's more comfy
Unfortunately for that, traded in the old low rider and now have a garage full of stock dyna parts
Though from how you had that originally, I would have tried to get top dollar for it and get something new that's more comfy
Last edited by ChickinOnaChain; 04-17-2016 at 12:10 AM.
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