I wanted to replace my stock front and rear fenders with some shorter cafe ones for some time now. Last weekend I finally found a nice, used K&H stainless steel front fender for 1500Baht (~50$; 35Euros) in Bangkok. A Thai guy called Kung (shrimp) has a small shop around Rama7...well, it's not really a shop, more like a room with parts and a computer. He mainly deals online on
thaiscooter.com and
srthailand.com, but being the intrusive kind of farang, I went to his place.
The front fender was a bargain, but the rear was so expensive, I would have to sell one of my kidneys to pay for it. No way, I thought.
After installing the front fender, I started working on the rear one. The idea was to shorten the original fender and in the process save a lot of money. A win-win situation.
Of course this has been done before and probably better too, but I've never actually seen any threads on how to do it. I hope this can help you if you intend to do the same.
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| The big original and the short K&H fender |
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| K&H mounted |
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| The original Rear fender before cutting |
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| close-up view, the fender is held into place by 4 bolts, 2 near the shocks and 2 near the turn signals. You'll have to cut right between the 'shock bolt' and the 'signal bolt' and the move the 'signal bolt' back to the 'shock bolt'. |
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| mock-up (before cutting), 'signal bolt' is now where the 'shock bolt' is |
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| Find the cutting line. The cutting line is basically where the fender touches the black plastic (on the right in the picture) |
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| I used an angle grinder for lack of better equipment, but it did the job.... |
You'll also have to re-position your back light, drill a few holes in the fender and re-connect the cables.
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| Finished! Looks good I think.... |
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