thats one hell of a suggestion. thats probably gonna clear all worries up for him to. great advice zoomie. [sm=goodidea.gif]

now with that being said, and to minimize the gap from the wheel and fender, judging on his body weight to, can he take some away to.? meaning after bottoming out the bike to get the clearance, and hyperthetically speaking, say it 4 inches, can he take away, say 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches.? also fitting in the body weight to.?

 

There are variables involved, how low are you already and shock travel.

Here is the right way (and only way I am aware of) to set it up.

With your bike on the lift, unbolt your shocks.
Pull the wheel/swingarm up until it bottoms on the rubber bump stops. This is your maixmum swingarm travel.

Tape a 3/8" hose around the top of the tire. Place your fender on this and tighten/ bolt down the fender with the swingarm resting against the bump stops.

With my setup, realistically I'm lowered about1.5", and there is still ~2" of potential shock travel. This is why for my setup, I started with a fender blank, and actually cutting the fender was the last piece of the puzzle after I had the swingarm variables nailed.

I've been following your progress too Mark, if you need more specifics you can email me directly at chops101@yahoo.com

cheers

 

Check out thunder mountain cycles. They modify softails. http://www.thundermountaincustoms.com/



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I started getting creative, not sure if it went in the direction I wanted it to.

Here's what I did...




Here's with me on it to add a bit of weight...






Right now, I've got the rear fender cut so that if I was to bottom out, it would be the fender against the swingarm and therefore not allowing the tire to touch the fender. (even with a 245lb friend bouncing on the seat, he could just bottom it out)

At that, there was still an 1/8" in between the tire and fender when the compression was fully compressed. (him bouncing up and down)

I put my butt on it and still have a 1/2" when fully compressed.

Just wanted some other opinions, did I go to wild with the fender cutting?

Thanks for everyone's input.

Mark

 

Disconnect the shocks, move the swingarm all the way up as high as it will go, mount the fender directly on top of the tire. Then go and reconnect the shocks. Shock movement should always be less than suspension travel and the difference will be your fender/tire clearance on the hardest bump you can hit.

 

Fender looks great. Is that a 200 tire, it looks fat.

 

Looks "sick" I like it a lot.
Ordinarily I'm not much of a fan of cutting fenders cut down that far.
But I have to sayafter seeing yours I may have to rethink my position,itslooks great.