I’ve decided that not having a front fender sucks balls. One could argue that it looks kinda cool, but it’s more of a hassle than it’s worth; particularly when one lives in a place where it rains all the goddamn time.
I long ago #$%*-canned the original fender, which is fine, I guess. I’m not sure I can think of a graceful way to mount it to the USD forks anyhow. I though about just picking up a factory gixxer fender, but
A: They look kinda dopey
B: It wouldn’t fit either; it was never meant to fit over a 19” tire/wheel
I really like how the fender looks on the Sport 1K’s…
…but even a used & banged up one on eBay was selling for more than I thought seemed reasonable.
So, I decided that I would make my own damn fender; screw those guys and their overpriced Italian junk.
Started off with a couple pieces of foam insulation glued together & cut down to a rough size:
Cut out the basic profile on the band saw:
I used a “cheese grater” made for smoothing down bondo and shaped the foam buck into something resembling a fender:
To ‘glass it up, I just use plain ‘ol Bondo cloth like you can find at any Ace/Napa/whatever:
Just need to let it cure for a day or so and we’ll see how she looks:
I have no idea yet how I’m actually going to mount the thing once it’s done, but it’s a start at least…
