• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

How much bracing does the stock front mudguard do?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
Pete it wont be difficult to make your own, just buy an offcut from ebay or somewhere and bend it your self.measure the distance between the forks and find a steel pipe or log or anything with the same diameter as the fork distance. work it round with a bit of heat and cut it,shape it polish it, paint it whatever you want
 
Now why didn't I think of that!? :rolleyes:

I'm guessing something around 3mm thick would be a good size... and I still have some POR 15 Blackcote left over that I need to paint my tail light bracket and the new exhaust bracket with yet... so that could work out very well indeed!
 
pete said:
Now why didn't I think of that!? :rolleyes:

I'm guessing something around 3mm thick would be a good size... and I still have some POR 15 Blackcote left over that I need to paint my tail light bracket and the new exhaust bracket with yet... so that could work out very well indeed!
Click to expand...
3mm would be fine, strong enough. any thing thicker would be hard to bend to shape.
 
you can buy aluminium off cuts cheap as chips on ebay UK, dont know about your side of the world, or is there a local machine shop or metal fabricator nearby you can go beg a peice from?
 
Agemax said:
you can buy aluminium off cuts cheap as chips on ebay UK, dont know about your side of the world, or is there a local machine shop or metal fabricator nearby you can go beg a peice from?
Click to expand...

I've seen some on eBay before, none there right this second but that doesn't mean much, and I've seen them cheap.

There may be somewhere nearby I can get an offcut from too...
 
Actually, if I get a big enough sheet, that can do for making up my bash plate as well... nice thinkin' Agemax :D
 
just measure the width of the mounting bolts each side and roughly guess the overall length you will need to bend it round,maybe with a flexible tape measure, then add a bit on each to allow for shaping filing etc. better to have it to big to start rather than too small. ally is easy to cut and file!
 
Agemax said:
just measure the width of the mounting bolts each side and roughly guess the overall length you will need to bend it round,maybe with a flexible tape measure, then add a bit on each to allow for shaping filing etc. better to have it to big to start rather than too small. ally is easy to cut and file!
Click to expand...

Sounds like a plan to me!
 
Hahahaha yeah that'd be nice... 1:20am here and I'm still working... sitting watching pretty graphs go up and down... yay... I want it to end, my eyes are hangin' out of my head :rolleyes:

But I shall commence searching for some aluminium...
 
Twenty or thirty GSes, maybe fifty, mostly returned from the dead, you don't think a few of them didn't have fenders at one time or another?
But yeah, even the Ls with no fenders, bald tires and no oil in the shocks handled pretty good compared to your Herdly, so you might not notice the difference.
 
50 bikes?!! Holy smokes, old man.
If you would have bought a Harley you wouldnt have needed to own 50 bikes.
The Harley woulda been the one and only bike you woulda ever needed.
 
I don't need fifty bikes. I like to fix dead ones. It's kind of a hobby, when I'm not working or dirt riding. Buy them dead, fix them up a little, make them safe, sometimes make them pretty, and sell them on to someone who needs a good motorcycle. So, yeah, something like 30 GSes, maybe 50, turned a little profit on almost all of them. A few BMWs here and there, and some other Jap crap thrown in too. I could probably do the same with the HDs, and probably make more money since the HD nerds spend so much buying the silly things, but there's a problem. I don't like them. Ugly, loud and slow, and boringly they all sound the same. And the chrome, I really dislike chrome. And tassels. And slow riders almost crashing all the time. And the silly incessant farting noises.
You can have your Herdly.
 
tkent02 said:
I don't need fifty bikes. I like to fix dead ones. It's kind of a hobby, when I'm not working or dirt riding. Buy them dead, fix them up a little, make them safe, sometimes make them pretty, and sell them on to someone who needs a good motorcycle. So, yeah, something like 30 GSes, maybe 50, turned a little profit on almost all of them. A few BMWs here and there, and some other Jap crap thrown in too. I could probably do the same with the HDs, and probably make more money since the HD nerds spend so much buying the silly things, but there's a problem. I don't like them. Ugly, loud and slow, and boringly they all sound the same. And the chrome, I really dislike chrome. And tassels. And slow riders almost crashing all the time. And the silly incessant farting noises.
You can have your Herdly.
Click to expand...

Ok, we all know how you feel about Harleys, can we move on?
I still cant help but think you're lacking something somewhere in your bitter little life if you have so much hate for a simple little material item bottled up inside you.
But thats your problem. Something you'll have to work out on your own. Best left off the GS forums.

Just get past it so we can stop overwhelming the entire forums with it.
 
Octain said:
Ok, we all know how you feel about Harleys, can we move on?
I still cant help but think you're lacking something somewhere in your bitter little life if you have so much hate for a simple little material item bottled up inside you.
But thats your problem. Something you'll have to work out on your own. Best left off the GS forums.

Just get past it so we can stop overwhelming the entire forums with it.
Click to expand...
well said octain, go away tkent and find another thread to hijack
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

rsquire
1982 GS1100E - My First (Project) Bike
2
Replies
27
Views
663
Grimly
Grimly
Chuck78
Radial tires on vintage bikes - Continental etc
Replies
8
Views
818
Grimly
Grimly
darrell3001
Hello from San Diego
Replies
17
Views
369
Suzukian
S
G
79 or 82?
Replies
6
Views
175
Nessism
Nessism
G
Thinking about a GS750 project
Replies
12
Views
296
Guest
G
Back
Top