Finished the fender mounts today. The tabs are only tacked on for now. The fender is much more rigid than I had expected, almost rings when I tap on it. To make the tabs I welded into the fender I bent a length of 1" flat stock down the middle, then cut the bend in half. This gave me two identical curved pieces that matched the fender pretty well. I'm very happy with how it has turned out.

Sneak peak of the fender mounts. Not welded in yet, need to make tabs on the fender for the spacers to mount against because the fender has too much radius on it. After that everything will be ready to weld onto the frame. I'm real happy with it so far.

You can hardly see, but the nuts on the inside of the lower tabs/feet will be tack welded on to make mounting easier.

Finally got the wheels today!!! Didn't waste much time to lace them up. Took a while but it was worth it. I still need to true them up, but first I caught a snag on the rear wheel - 1 spoke didn't have any threads! So, the front wheel is ready to trued, and the rear is still loose. I'll have to contact the manufacturer and get another spoke sent to me. Figures the rear had a bad spoke, the front came with 4 spares and no spares for the rear. Ok less blah and more pics.

Another fender update. I'm so glad I figured out how I want to mount this thing, it's been driving me crazy trying to do something a little different than the norm but still structurally sound.

The fender is also cut to length, and the duck tail is ground to the shape I want.

Put the engine and chain in so that I will have the spacing between the fender and tire that i want. It is now ready for the mounts. For the lower mounts I'm going to cut two 1" lengths of 1" angle iron. They will be welded onto the lower cross tube side by side on either side of the fender rib as feet against the fender. I picked up a bunch of leather washers so they will go between the feet and the fender for as a damper.

The upper fender mounts usually are struts made from round stock from the axle plate up to the end of the fender. I'm going to try and not use fender struts, but instead weld tabs on the upper frame on each side of the fender with 1.5" steel spacers and of course leather washers between the fender and the spacer. I'm pretty excited by this design, hopefully the fender doesn't bounce around (too much). If it does I guess I will just throw on some additional fender struts. I am noticing the rib in the center adds some great additional structure to the fender.

Did some fender mock ups today. Found where I want to cut the fender and trim up the duck tail. The duck tail was pressed so I want to trim it up with a grinder to look like it was folded. You can see the lip under the tail that will be ground flat, corners are masked off for grinding too so that it blends better too.

I called the powder coater for an update. Rims are done and he's doing the hubs after Xmas... ugh! Well I realized I had all the pieces to assemble a wheel, mount the tire, and fab up the fender mounts. So today I laced up the spare wheel using the TX500 hub I decided not to use. I also threw a few things onto the frame to see how it's looking. Fender will be shortened a few inches.

Quick update, coil is mounted, battery box mounts are on, frame welds are finished, and the rear brake stay is on too. hm what else... Only thing left are the fender mounts. Waiting for the wheels to come back from powdercoating before lining up the fender and making the mounts.

Now a week later, I had a bunch of goodies delivered today. Also took a long lunch to drop off the rims and hubs for powder coating. Now that I have the tank, the frame should be done this week and off to powder coating as well.

Here's a pile of swag I've accumulated from Lowbrow Customs where I got all the seat stuff and the fender. I find the little square one in the middle particularly hilarious.