I recently took off my front fender to paint it. got a new front tire, fresh brakes and im ready to reasemble this thing.  problem is i dont recall which way the fender goes on.  fresh paint scratches easy and i only wanna take one shot at putting it back on.

i notice one side has an extra lip of steel under the edge is that the front or the back??    or does it not matter can it go either way??

thanks in advance of any helpful answers

Fick

Are they reversible?

I have no clue but if the mounts are dead center then it should be reversible, or at least mount backwards with no problems.

Put it on with the extra plated side in front like the drawing suggests.
didnt wanna risk scratching it or i wouldve tried it both ways.  

it looks good and so does my paint

The longer side is to the rear.

A J,

The longer part of the fender is toward the engine, and to the best of my knowledge the fender has never been off of the bike.

Kenny G

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I think so. I just went out and looked at mine, which I'm sure hasn't ever been off. KennyG is right. Extra piece of metal on mine is in the back. From the front of the fender to appx the center of the forks is about 11". From the rear to the same spot it's about 12 1/2".

You said it looks good. If you like the way it looks I doubt having it reversed makes much difference in the way it functions. If the roads you ride on are as crappy as the ones in my part of the country, it won't be long before you have to paint it again anyway if you want  be perfect.

Since the road crap slings up and back, if someone was gonna reinforce it, rear edge does kinda make sense.
If it's a simple rolled edge, then I could see that on the front, but if it's a plate, doubling the thickness all the way across, I can see how they would have done that to protect the outside of the fender from getting little bumps on it, paint cracking, from rocks smacking into it on the inside.