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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Front Mud Flap 01/15/15 at 21:32:04 MMRanch wrote on 01/12/15 at 23:10:55: I weigh just under 200lbs, run a big windshield/ Bags / Trunk and full fenders /w/ mud flaps. When you say full fenders, do you mean the stockers, or did you find other, even fuller fenders to fit?
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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5836 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Kawasaki Pulley Conversions Reply #1 - 01/16/15 at 21:24:22 Art No just the stock fenders with a mud flap big enough to actually do what its supposed to. I'd like even more front fender so the water doesn't come back on my pants legs .
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Re: Kawasaki Pulley Conversions
Reply #2 - 01/17/15 at 12:20:06

I would, too, that's why I asked
I'm a fan of the heavily valanced fenders they used to use on motorcycles back in the day, as well as the old beach bars (I think that's what they're called nowadays)
too bad there's no 'c' version of the S40 to steal fenders from
I'd also like a comfier seat, sheild (that, at least, I can get) and luggage
how'd you do the mudflaps? make your own?

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Re: Front Mud Flap
Reply #3 - 01/19/15 at 04:28:58

This is a useful thread for those folks who ride in wet weather. The stock fender can be improved for wet weather riding. You can buy a universal mud flap like shown in the following video - or you can just cut one from heavy rubber or plastic. The longer/wider you make it the more protection you will get - however you need to balance looks and function.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R36UMa5bUc

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #4 - 01/19/15 at 06:13:34 Rowboat has a nice mudflap... Hmmmm,, sounded okay in my head,but,don't look so good in print..
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #5 - 01/19/15 at 06:49:31 Thanks Dave, didn't mean to revisit a covered topic, I need to learn to use the search function Also I should quit hijacking threads
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #6 - 01/19/15 at 07:54:09 You do all that and nobody will know you're still here... you aren't hurting anyone that I've seen... Thread drift is no biggie and anyone can redirect one at any time. Poodles,,anyone wanna talk about poodles?
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18098 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #7 - 01/19/15 at 07:55:46 Art Webb wrote on 01/19/15 at 06:49:31: Thanks Dave, didn't mean to revisit a covered topic, I need to learn to use the search function Also I should quit hijacking threads Yep....No biggie. I just split the thread apart so that it wasn't hidden in a pulley thread and everyone could benefit from it.
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Re: Front Mud Flap
Reply #8 - 01/19/15 at 13:36:32

When the front tire goes through a puddle, it splashes the water up and to the sides. My boots catch that splash as the front pegs (and my feet) travel through the splash.

Now, when I ride my other machine with rear sets, I don't get this problem as much. I suspect that's because the additional distance of the pegs gives the splash time to clear the area around the foot pegs.

A mudflap helps reduce the amount of water that hits the frame tube, but it does nothing to keep my feet dry on puddle wet roads.

So, until I can figure out how to fit some 'foot fairings' to the pegs, I make do with waterproof boots and snow gaiters that allow the water to splash around my ankles.

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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #9 - 01/19/15 at 20:12:41 If I were a better fabricator I'd try to figure a way to make a valanced front fender Maybe someone out there makes one that might fit Hmmm
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #10 - 01/20/15 at 06:51:15 I've been seen with my boots up on the motor in the cold and wet. A Deflector down on the pegs,,,hmmmm...
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Re: Front Mud Flap
Reply #11 - 01/20/15 at 18:17:43

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/20/15 at 06:51:15:

I've been seen with my boots up on the motor in the cold and wet.
A Deflector down on the pegs,,,hmmmm...

probably easier than making (decent looking) skirts for the front fender

I'd love to see the feet on engine thing, I'm sure I simply lack imagination,. but I can't picture how you are doing that

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Flint Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks Alberta! Posts: 124	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #12 - 01/20/15 at 19:40:47 Oddly enough, one of the first things on my "to do list" for the S40 was a front mud flap. I wasn't thinking of my feet, more the crankcase from getting sand blasted on gravel roads.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #13 - 01/20/15 at 19:52:02 Man,I was huddled up, thighs on the tank, feet on the cases, it wasn't pleasant, I wasn't Just Cruising,, I was Mizrubble,,it was Cold,yukkk.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Front Mud Flap Reply #14 - 01/21/15 at 19:36:56 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/20/15 at 19:52:02: Man,I was huddled up, thighs on the tank, feet on the cases, it wasn't pleasant, I wasn't Just Cruising,, I was Mizrubble,,it was Cold,yukkk. sounds brutal, I'd have been hating life
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