Could you post a side view?

 

Sorry for the bad pics - dark garage, flashlight, phone camera.

 

That looks like a fix...not sure about the rivets tho.


Your fender (hugger) is much longer than mine is...I still think I will just cut mine off a little more. I don't have the chain on yet and the wheel is all the way forward and it barely touches so will wait and see once chain is on.

 

Yeah I suppose the more perfect approach would be to epoxy the alu to the fender and clamp with the rivets, then remove the rivets after the epoxy kicks and fill the holes. But I'm afraid I'm running out of steam after a year and a half, and they aren't very visible with the pipe and the passenger pegs in the way. My rear wheel ended up right on the marks on the swingarm with a new chain installed, so you may end up with plenty of room. I'm actually glad I left the hugger long, as there is a lot of dead leaf and pine needle garbage on the roads around here, that tends to get flung into all the nooks and crannies on the bike. The very front point of the lowers was full of leaves and crud after a ride a couple weeks ago, and when I pulled the rear hugger up to make the rivet holes there was a lot of crud between the top of the swingarm and underside of the lower part of the hugger. So it seems to be doing it's job.

At this point I just want some sunny weather and some time off to RIDE! This cold gray drizzly stuff gets tedious. Next step during the winter downtime is gonna be fine tuning the suspension sag.

 

The hugger on mine is still longer than the RR hugger so should work to keep stuff out of there. I have a cover I made for under the tail to keep crud out from under there.


You have sag in the back? Mine sat too low when I first put it together with the stock shock. I put the new Progressive shock on there and it brought it up a bit...I think there are tricks to lift it more. Have to do a search.

 

Mine seems to be in the ballpark as is, just want to make sure it's optimal. Here is a nice article on measuring rider sag very accurately

Suspension and Springs

 

BTW, it's snowing here and been below zero all week...so even to have an opportunity to ride is a blessing...not until spring here

 

It's been a while.


Most know my health saga has kept me down over the past couple of years. I finally had fusion surgery on my back and have recovered pretty well. Still building up my strength, but finally back at working on my bikes


So I had made up an original RR front fender to fit the conversion bike. I made measurements and cut it to fit. After I got to putting it on the bike two of the Hurricane fender mount lugs were in the way and I couldn't get it to fit. Sad because I put a lot of time in the prep and paint on that fender...


I took the Hurricane fender and cut and trimmed it and kept trying it until I got something I felt looked pretty good. I made it more stealthy and lighter than the RR fender and then tried to emulate the paint scheme to get it to match and look right on the bike.


Here are some pictures of part of the paint process and the final fit on the bike. The pictures start after prep and paint of the white, so missing a lot of the hard work but shows how I go about doing the paint process. The fender will still need to be clear coated but at least it's ready.


Hoping you all like the result.

 

Hey, hey, glad your up and at 'em! That looks really nice. I spent some time trying to figure out how to cut mine down and gave up and left it with the stock "land speed record" fender look. Actually that big ol fender has sorta grown on me over time. The two stock fenders are so different that it's sort of an apples and oranges thing to turn the Hurricane fender into the RR. You came up with a very clean looking way to cut it down.

Regarding your comeback, stay with the exercises. I've been running for the past ten years after I busted the heck out of my leg. But that only trains about 50% of the leg muscles I need to be comfortable to ride. So I went and strained my game leg a few weeks ago, fighting some too tight leathers trying to get my foot up on the peg. Talk about making me feel like some withered old fart! Anyway, I looked up a few weight training programs for riders on the web and have started doing a core and leg strengthening program every three days. It's already made a big difference.

 

Thanks for the positive comments.


It took a long time to finish it. I'm still working out of a box right now. I painted it in the new shop but still not ready over there. I think it looks good on the bike tho.


The whole exercise thing is really important and I'm not as diligent as I should be...but am improving all the time.


I'm hoping that the bike will be done before spring here so I can actually ride it. I think that is possible. I'm ready to finish and start on the next bike, but will be spending most of my time on bringing the shop together and final details on this bike. The Norton is sitting there kind of sad tho...it wants to be on the road too.