cycle style fenders

In Aus. you must have all 4 wheels covered. My front brackets are made up of 1" x 3/8", I've seen plenty of lighter brackets made and they tend to flex and break off. Bobbed rear guards, but I made the fronts out of a 44 Gallon drum. Comes with a ready made bead. Not perfect, but has the Old Timey look I was after.

 

Badageree do you have a pic of those drum fenders ?

 

My buddy Dan makes these
http://www.7metalwest.com/motorcycle_parts.html

 

wow thanks guys , im reinspired i was gonna go out in the garage and take em off,,, but after seeing different pics im interested again actually i only had one on when i asked what my fellow hambers thought about them ,too cool does any one have trouble with vibration ,or is it just trial and error till ya get it right,,,,?

 

mark h now those are NICEill bet that tie brace helps the stiffness alot hmmm ideas ideas,ideas

 

Thanks,but you haven't seen them up close!LOL.
I'm pretty happy with them though.The braces seem like they'll be strong enough for the job.I plan on adding flat strap accross the width of the underside of the fender which will tie in to the braces and should result in a pretty strong mounting.Wont know for certain until the car's on the road though.

 

yeah we got some pretty bad roads around here ,i call em creek beds so i guess well see ,but ya know well look good doin it

 

I saw some good looking trailer fenders at a local ag type store that sells a bit of everything a while back that look pretty close to what Mark H probably started with. A little hunting can produce some nice stuff to use for the fenders.

 

I made these out of trailer fenders that I split and used the curved sides

 

I found some better close up photos of my fenders. This was my second pair of fronts, because my first pair fell off and got run over. I then stole the idea from a local talented metal guy " cant recall his name" This was his bracket design, which has been proven bullet proof. If you have a plasma cutter you can do this. I drilled 1/2 holes and welded nuts on the inside of the backing plate and made a bracket that bolted to it and the fender brackets mounted to it with 3 5/16 bolts. I hope this helps.

 

Those are some nice looking fenders your buddy Dan makes!

 

Here's a set I made out of a '57 T-bird spare tire cover on my Hudson.


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Here is the ones we did for the 33 roadster. There made out of a 1934 ford spare tire cover-Not cycle fenders.

 

WOW thompson , and raywith too cool thanks

 

I was considering building a set of fenders for my coupe to keep the law at bay as we travel state to state, but my rear tires are 10" tread width. The fenders that fit very very close to the tire like on a custom built chopper bike, for instance, is what I would go for. It seems that on all the cars that run cycle fenders get them painted the body color, which is cool, but I am wondering if they wouldn't look better painted closer to the finish and color of the TIRE so as to not to draw attention to the fenders but, instead keep it on the rest of the car. Has anyone done that who has a picture they would care to post?

 

I forgot to say mine are '36 Ford spare tire ring front, and '37 Buick sidemount cover rings rear. The rears are widened an inch and half, which is about half an inch too much...

Vibrating brackets are a problem that some of the designs shown look like they'd be prone to. I know I had one break, which dropped the rear fender onto a tire. I still have the rear ones occasionally whack the side of the body. Gives the car a patina'd look...

Brian

 

Here is a pic from the 70's....remember, most cars had the tires sticking out of the fenders

 

I made these for a customer.

 

This may sound weird to some of you guys, but I want to install some on mine but with a quick-release type mount. I want them for poor weather but run without them most of the time. When they're off I don't want a strange mounting bracket to be sitting there out of place. It'll take some creativity, but I plan on doing a clean install of some sort...

 

Tubing brackets do hold up well under fatigue. A slip joint, made w/a solid pin-into-tube?

Or just go w/a stud and nut mounting.

 

I don't have any fenders or fender "experience" yet, but based on what other's have said about the strength needed to keep them from flexing and breaking over time, I'd venture a guess that building them as strong as possible and leaving them on all the time is best. It is a look you can get accustomed to, eh? But since that isn't what you want....

One more question... do you plan to carry them around with you and put them on when the weather or road gets bad, like folding top stored in the trunk? Or just put them on before you leave on a long trip down a gravel road? If you plan to carry them around, that might effect your overall design. But then again, if you have them it won't rain and if you leave them at home you just might be sorry you didn't bring them with you! That's why mine will go on permanently.

But more to your question... how about tube or flat bar braces that slip over and bolt on studs welded to the backing plates? Or on brackets mounted on the hubs on a disc brake car? That way, you might get away with just a two or three few bolts on each brace. And, you could cover the mounting studs with some sort of decorative bullet or acorn nut when the fenders are removed?

For the rears, use the same approach or... we fab'd a split ring bracket out of a short length of tube with smaller tubes for mounting bolts welded it for my rear axle. Then we cut the ring bracket in half and welded the bottom half on the axle tube. When time comes to fab my rear fenders, we will bolt on the top half of the ring bracket and then weld the fender mounting braces to that. In this fashion, the fenders will be quickly removable - for maintenance. Here is a pix of our rear bracket. I think you can see the 4 tube / holes in this shot. Hope this helps. Gary