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Old 01-12-2007, 01:40 AM
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Rear Fender Cutdown

Due to poor weather over the last couple of days I decided to remove the rear fender from the Rocket, My Corbin Rumble seat arrived last week and probably a good thing it did as once it was sitting on the bike I realised my original thoughts regarding the fender chop may have to be revised. I was going to go for the straight cut and fit LED light, but after thinking about rear lights and LED not being DOT approved it would have meant swapping things back to standard for the bikes annual Warrant of Fittness, same as an MOT check, and as I dont have a replacement fender yet this could have proved as hassle. So I decided to keep the original tail light, I cut the original fender about 25 mm above the exixting tail light then trimmed the lower 25 mm from the bottom of the piece I had cut off, took it all to work this morning and welded the small bottom piece back on, made a template up for the tailight hole and cut that out, I drilled all the welds from the back of the tail light support, a simple job to now re weld it onto the back of the modyfied fender so the tail light can be secured, I cut and shortened the feder support frame, and rewelded it back together, have pics of all the good bits if you want to see them, I reshaped the corners of the fender from my first cut to bring the line in better and drilled hole's for the mini indicators I am gonna use, purchased a licence plate mount for the left side from newbonneville.com , Slipped the rear end back together, today all painted up and shinny, see that 240 tyre ??? I am happy with the result, just got to hook up the licence plate holder onto the left shock and wire up the led to comply with the law and she's all done, stock seat on at the moment , look's pretty cool with the Corbin on too. Oh yea!!!!






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