GS1100G (1982) Fender

[salty_monk]

I didn't yet snap any pics but I have two fenders. The paint etc is the same but one is visibly wider & the way it is built (the support underneath) is different. Any one seen that before & can tell me which was the original? They both have minor damage so I guess it doesn't matter which I use, I'd just prefer to use the right one...

[Nessism]

The 1100G front wheel was wider (and the tire wider) than that of the 850G (and most other GS's.) I suspect the wider fender is the right part.

[salty_monk]

Yeah that was my guess too. The narrower fender looks more like the older bikes construction underneath.

[Redman]

1100GK fender is about 3/4 inch wider than 1100G.

Paint and stripes are same, so could look the same in ebay picture, just to pick some random example . . . . or maybe the specifics of my experience.

[salty_monk]

Aha that sounds about right in difference... so you're saying I may have the original 1100G plus a GK fender?

I'll have to get them down & measure them. I did take one of them off the bike, I'll see if I have pictures to work out which one. Aren't the GK forks 41mm and wider between the fork legs?

[Redman]

Aha that sounds about right in difference... so you're saying I may have the original 1100G plus a GK fender?

I'll have to get them down & measure them. I did take one of them off the bike, I'll see if I have pictures to work out which one. Aren't the GK forks 41mm and wider between the fork legs?

Yah
suggesting thanmaybe the wider one is from a GK (if you don’t know where it came from).

yes GK has larger diameter forks and they are further apart, and the fender is then wider also .

[Grimly]

I have an 1100E fender on my 850 - same spacing and width, so obviously not a GK.
Reason I picked it is I like the look of it and there's a bloody great brace under it, which means I don't need to fit any additional bracing.

[salty_monk]

Yeah I would expect the 850 to match the 1100 as it also matches the 1000E and 1000G (I've run an 1100E fender on my skunk for a while now - ever since I buggered up the paint job on the cut down stock one!)