I notice that there's somewhat of a brace built into the stock mudguard, but how much work does that actually do?
I can see it tying the fork legs together along with the front axle to ensure they move up and down in unison, and maybe adding a little twist reduction as well.
So, I'm thinking of three options at the moment.
1. Make a bracket out of 3mm steel to lift the stock front mudguard about 60 or 65mm. I could only get 50mm wide steel, so I can weld two pieces of that side by side to make one solid bracket on each side, and I think that that would be very close to retaining the stock rigidity of the built in brace. The biggest issue with this option is if the exhaust being made gives any clearance issues to the rear of the guard when the forks compress.
2. Drop the stock front mudguard altogether and use a plastic dirt bike guard hanging off the bottom triple tree.
3. Same as 2, except add a proper fork brace. The issue with this is it may look a little stupid and unless I can find a well priced second hand one, a fork brace will set me back $150, so not cheap.
Any thoughts on the above? One thing to note if it makes a difference is that I will be getting Ikon progress fork springs before too much longer...
And of course this is on my '82 450E
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