i'm giving serious consideration to chopping the rear fender back before i do some paint and i was wondering if anyone has done this lately or put on a custom shorter rear fender and some pics.

 

i have!

 

wait, you wanna chop the back huh. i chopped out the front eh

 

This forum is littered with pics of my chop job but I know how fun the search feature is...

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ppics002-1.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...enderchop1.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...enderchop2.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u.../roughcut1.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...derchop3-1.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...clepics029.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...epics017-1.jpg

 

I've been considering something like this lately
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...umphreycm2.jpg

 

yeah, that is bitchin! if i didn't ride the woman, i would totally do that!!



and i have seen plenty of your stuff in the search. i was wondering if anyone had done anything else. maybe a little shorter.

i'm actually really curious about a custom fender.

 

I don't think you can go much shorter than I did and keep your passenger capabilities.I left about an inch past the struts, I suppose you could cut right to the ends of the struts.They make a number of custom strutless fenders that are shorter but most require removing the fender struts.Once that's done I'm not sure the fender would support a passenger.Lately I've been thinking of chopping off my struts and mounting my fender as is to the swing arm.I'd roll it forward till the front could be bolted to the swing arm and then run a couple of supports off the lower shock mounts to the fender.Where I get hung up is what to do about the seat I like my bare bones and don't want a spring seat mounted way above the frame.Oh well maybe some day.

 

Waterman if you chop it i will buy your tail light... just throwing that out there...

 

Special Ed, what bars are you usin??

pete

 

Don't do it, man![sm=noooo.gif] I dig your fender too much slammed like that and the mean stance your bike has. OTOH, something more radical might be cool, too, and I can always save the pics as it is now. It's not like I see it in person anyway...