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What use is the front wheel fender for?

oldapeman said:
Yes, water, rocks, air flow.... But one more thing that is very important: On many bikes the fender includes a metal brace, that is in fact a fork brace to keep the forks in line as they are stressed by the up -down and side forces on the front end. The factory engineers are not just going for vanity and cleanliness.
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I don't know of any upside down forks that use braces, due to the shape it would have to be. Instead, they tend to use larger axles.
 
Who is old enough to remember when the chopper guys did this when it rained?
 

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oldapeman said:
On many bikes the fender includes a metal brace, that is in fact a fork brace to keep the forks in line as they are stressed by the up -down and side forces on the front end. The factory engineers are not just going for vanity and cleanliness.
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:facepalm
1972 is calling you and wants it's goldfish filled platform shoes back.

On modern bikes the front fender is there to keep rocks from getting kicked up by the front tire and popping your radiator thereby sparing you the unpleasant experience of being stranded in the middle of nowhere surounded by hillbillies who think, "your mouf shur is purty...."
 
Lesbusa said:
:facepalm
1972 is calling you and wants it's goldfish filled platform shoes back.
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The fact that you are factually WRONG makes your condescending criticism lame. For example, remove the front fender of almost any Ninja from the last 15 years, turn it over, and you will find a metal brace. Some are integrated into the plastic, and some are a separate piece shaped to fit inside the fender. They are there, even today.

So maybe your bikes do not have it, and the design engineers handled the fork stresses in a different way. That does not make my statement wrong, or dated. Sux to be you. :twofinger
 
oldapeman said:
Yes, water, rocks, air flow.... But one more thing that is very important: On many bikes the fender includes a metal brace, that is in fact a fork brace to keep the forks in line as they are stressed by the up -down and side forces on the front end. The factory engineers are not just going for vanity and cleanliness.
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took 38 posts to get this one, Very good. I ran my XJ650 without and could see the forks twisting. Put the front tire in between your legs and twist the bars and see the flex.
 
oldapeman said:
The fact that you are factually WRONG makes your condescending criticism lame. For example, remove the front fender of almost any Ninja from the last 15 years, turn it over, and you will find a metal brace. Some are integrated into the plastic, and some are a separate piece shaped to fit inside the fender. They are there, even today.

So maybe your bikes do not have it, and the design engineers handled the fork stresses in a different way. That does not make my statement wrong, or dated. Sux to be you. :twofinger
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Actually I was being funny but maybe you should get your facts straight. This is 2012, the last 15 years puts you in the mid ninties which was about the time that sport bikes started changing to upsidedown forks which made the brace obsolete. So unless you mean the 250 or 500 Ninja it's an even guess as to when the older bikes had reinforced fenders or not. I had two sport bikes from the eighties, one had reinforced fender, the other didn't but I added a brace of my own so I'm quite familiar with fork braces, are you familiar with current sport bikes?
 
oldapeman said:
The fact that you are factually WRONG makes your condescending criticism lame. For example, remove the front fender of almost any Ninja from the last 15 years, turn it over, and you will find a metal brace. Some are integrated into the plastic, and some are a separate piece shaped to fit inside the fender. They are there, even today.

So maybe your bikes do not have it, and the design engineers handled the fork stresses in a different way. That does not make my statement wrong, or dated. Sux to be you. :twofinger
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Since you are about half right you deserve an upgrade.

"1998 called and wants it's gen 1 mp3 player back and please don't forget to include the 16mb chip with that ABBA song you like so much."
 
Lesbusa said:
Actually I was being funny but maybe you should get your facts straight. This is 2012, the last 15 years puts you in the mid ninties which was about the time that sport bikes started changing to upsidedown forks which made the brace obsolete. So unless you mean the 250 or 500 Ninja it's an even guess as to when the older bikes had reinforced fenders or not. I had two sport bikes from the eighties, one had reinforced fender, the other didn't but I added a brace of my own so I'm quite familiar with fork braces, are you familiar with current sport bikes?
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Yes, I am familiar with some modern sportbikes. Not only are you still condescending, your reading comprehension skills are poor. Let me spell this out so that even you might have some slight chance of having the brain capacity to understand: Ninjas made between 1997 and 2012 have metal fork braces inside the plastic front fenders in almost all examples, including the newer models. This includes 250 through 1000 cc models, and maybe the 1400 as well.

So, are you both man enough and intelligent enough to admit you are wrong, or are you lacking in one or both of those capacities?

Don't bother answering if you cannot be honest. In fact, don't bother answering at all-- I am not interested, and no one else should be subjected to your misinformation or rudeness.,

Also, you are not funny, not at all.
 
Actually its a disc lock reminder tool---When you hear crack its time to take it off :twofinger
 
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