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Thullan · 11-21-2007

CELTICCB, Boat-Rap.com has a fender kit for the 800 as well. I sent them an e-mail about it earlier this year but they never replied though. Use Babelfish to translate it, unless you know japanese.

I personally went for a bobbed VN800 Classic fender instead as it allows for a passenger if needed. I put on the Scootworks lowering kit to make it look good, would look like crap without it. It sort of resembles the Roland Sands or Heartland USA looks in a way.

At first I considered either a matt black, medium gray or some flake/metallic paint. I eventually decided to go for a bare metal look with some pinstriping and stuff as a contrast, all covered by a protective coating. A friend did it on his Softail a couple of years ago and i have seen it on some other bikes and Hot Rods. Using sand paper to get the old paint of takes ages though so I might let someone sand blast it for me.

The chrome on the fender struts, dashboard etc is gonna get a Scotchbrite threatment to get a matte finnish.

CELTICCB, keep us updated!

11-21-2007	#27 (permalink)
Thullan Yet another 800 Bobber... BTK Expert Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Sweden Posts: 392	CELTICCB, Boat-Rap.com has a fender kit for the 800 as well. I sent them an e-mail about it earlier this year but they never replied though. Use Babelfish to translate it, unless you know japanese. I personally went for a bobbed VN800 Classic fender instead as it allows for a passenger if needed. I put on the Scootworks lowering kit to make it look good, would look like crap without it. It sort of resembles the Roland Sands or Heartland USA looks in a way. At first I considered either a matt black, medium gray or some flake/metallic paint. I eventually decided to go for a bare metal look with some pinstriping and stuff as a contrast, all covered by a protective coating. A friend did it on his Softail a couple of years ago and i have seen it on some other bikes and Hot Rods. Using sand paper to get the old paint of takes ages though so I might let someone sand blast it for me. The chrome on the fender struts, dashboard etc is gonna get a Scotchbrite threatment to get a matte finnish. CELTICCB, keep us updated! __________________ VN800A -95 Bobber Project, work in progress Last edited by Thullan : 11-21-2007 at 04:00 AM.