Fullauto said:
After endless disappointments in the procurement of a front guard for my Norton production racer front end, I would like to hear from anybody who has either a JPS front guard or a first type Production Racer front guard, which are no longer listed by Andover Norton for sale. The first type are the ones which bolt on to the forks with a rounded, aesthetically pleasing shape, rather than the angular, later type which attaches with a hose clamp, which I don't want. Please, no "have you tried...." posts, just solid information. I have researched this over the last 18 months and I am sick to death of it.
Telling people that it is a "street tracker" and doesn't require a front guard is getting a bit tired as well. It is a standing joke with my friends and it's the first thing people notice when they look at my bike. Every time I ride in the rain or on wet roads results in a wet face with shit thrown all over my helmet, me and the front of the bike.
Please, can anyone help me?
I don't understand how the fender Don sent you can fit between the sliders, but isn't wide enough to clear your tire. What that means to me is that type of fender which is BOLTED ON the sliders, doesn't wrap around the slider enough so the part that covers the wheel would be wider than the width apart of the sliders... that is the type of fender which the image below shows, and it can't work for your wide rim and tire. I would think that if all JPN fenders are like this, they won't work for you.
So,... with this kind of fender shown above, there isn't a way to cut this fender in half and make it wider because it isn't purely the width that's the issue. Any fender you get will need to wrap around the sliders AND also bolt up to them for what you want
I'm not sure if you know this website. GFTP...
http://gftpstore.com
here's a link to their repro norton fender that does NOT fit your bike because it doesn't wrap the fork leg.
http://gftpstore.com/Norton-Front-fende ... ORFDRA.htm As you can see below, it's shape doesn't wrap around the slider
Here's a link to a rickman fender that has the curvature in the fender at the fork leg which you need to clear your wider tire, BUT it's a hose clamp mounted application (which you didn't want)
http://gftpstore.com/Avon-Rickman-Front ... MNFDRA.htm Fender pictured below.
SO,... IF you buy the rickman fender you can rivet a small flat bracket to the fender's fiberglass struts to bolt to the fork leg mounting holes. The specs show it to be the same width as the norton fender that doesn't work, but it looks like the fender part is wider since it wraps the slider, where as the norton fender doesn't...
I have looked into this myself because I run an ugly "hose clamp" fiberglass fender too, but I didn't have the fit issue you have because I don't have the wide rims like you do... HTH, even though it's not a simple solution where you can just buy something that fits.
Please send me a free fullauto head for all my help, thanks... :lol:
