fiberglass fenders

[jpontius05]

Hey everyone. I'm a cheapass, and didn't feel like buying fenders for my 300ex, but i hate gettin mud all over myself when i ride in the mud, so i thought hey...i'll make fiberglass fenders. Anyways, they look hideous, cause i didn't have a clue what i wanted them to look like, and i didn't have a mold...but they work. I'll try to get some pics up.

I'm also planning on ordering a pair of 450 fenders to use as a mold. If anybody's interested, i'll be selling them for $35 a pair. Real cheap, and in any color. I'll have pics after i finish my first pair. Hopefully, they'll fit 300ex, 400ex, and 450. we'll just have to see. Let me know if there's any interest, and if so i'll get goin on it.

[tc300ex56]

let me know how it turns out and maybe ill see if i might want to get one

[UglyMotha™]

yah first roll, first time you clip a tree, first time sombody runs into you, you can kiss em good bye fiberglass is far from flexible enough to be used as fenders

[sleestack68]

Yeah but they are real nice to paint.

In the 80s they sold fiberglass fenders for trikes and they held up well. You could get some sick paintjobs going and they look new forever.

[Juggalo]

i'll take flexibility and durability over paintability any day.

watch your *** in fiberglass.....thats what they say about the kit cars that have the fiberglass bodies

[roostin_dale]

Originally posted by Juggalo
i'll take flexibility and durability over paintability any day.

yup

[SnowFlake]

I wanna see pics of this creation.

[greenhuman]

Nothing wrong with glass fenders if done right. If your'e worried about braking them, just learn to be a better rider.

[roostin_dale]

Originally posted by greenhuman
Nothing wrong with glass fenders if done right. If your'e worried about braking them, just learn to be a better rider.

how does breaking fenders make you a bad rider?:huh

[UglyMotha™]

Originally posted by greenhuman
Nothing wrong with glass fenders if done right. If your'e worried about braking them, just learn to be a better rider.



fiberglass fenders just won't hold up to the shock and abuse that most people put thier bikes thru really has nothing to do with skill and since you seem to think of yourself as so high and mighty learn to be a better speller, it's breaking :huh

[greenhuman]

Well, if you want to talk about spelling, the proper English spelling is FIBREGLASS. You do speak English, you know, not Umericarn. Shock and abuse? Better get rid of speedboats, a whole lot of speedway cars and drag cars, swimming pools, planes, yachts etc. Glass fenders must make you a better rider. I suppose thats why I 've won 4 national titles and 3 state titles racing quads here in Australia. I just didn't want to fall off a BREAK my FIBREGLASS fenders.

[UglyMotha™]

:huh can't say i've seen many speedboats, speedway cars, drag cars, planes, or yachts clearing doubles :rolleyes:

Originally posted by UglyMotha™
:huh can't say i've seen many speedboats, speedway cars, drag cars, planes, or yachts clearing doubles :rolleyes: your being very arrogant......

[660RaptorRider]

Originally posted by greenhuman
Well, if you want to talk about spelling, the proper English spelling is FIBREGLASS. You do speak English, you know, not Umericarn. Shock and abuse? Better get rid of speedboats, a whole lot of speedway cars and drag cars, swimming pools, planes, yachts etc. Glass fenders must make you a better rider. I suppose thats why I 've won 4 national titles and 3 state titles racing quads here in Australia. I just didn't want to fall off a BREAK my FIBREGLASS fenders.

first of all i bet there is alot of competiton in austrailia. Secondly ur being a d!ck. Thirdly, congrats on ur TITLES wow dude u must be a great rider.

[jpontius05]

bout time to settle the hell down, everyone. I'm not making them to be "better" than plastic...just cheaper. and that has been done successfully. in fact, VERY successfully. So ya'll (hows that for umericarn) can just settle down.
-jp

[440ex kid]

I'd like to see them. Sounds kool and cheap.

pics or stfu

[CowsBitePeople]

i want to see pics, these could be great for anyone with a show quad or maybe dunes where u dont have front and rear fenders some times:macho Dont listen to these people who are bashin dude:macho Good Job;)

[CowsBitePeople]

Originally posted by 660RaptorRider
first of all i bet there is alot of competiton in austrailia. Secondly ur being a d!ck. Thirdly, congrats on ur TITLES wow dude u must be a great rider.

oh and whats with the long ***** location?? its kind of obnoxious:huh

[660RaptorRider]

whats with ur dumbass question? its kinda pointless?

[CowsBitePeople]

Originally posted by 660RaptorRider
whats with ur dumbass question? its kinda pointless?

whats with the dunbass location?? its kinda pointless??:rolleyes:

[UglyMotha™]

how bout if you girls can it and quit using the word dumbass before i tell both your mothers :huh

[tc300ex56]

DUDE can u just show us pic of plastics

[Syrus]

Originally posted by tc300ex56
DUDE can u just show us pic of plastics

Im with you on that one.

[tc300ex56]

i dont understand y he just wont show us the pics plz show

[tc300ex56]

i dont understand y he just wont show us the pics plz show

[KASCHAK]

yup show us what you got so far.

[queenjr]

I have been asked to make fenders in the past and have turned it down because of the liability. Kinda hard to get cut by plastic. If you roll and the glass busts it will cut you pretty bad. You will not be able to pick it out like a splinter either because it will be barbed. I would like to see a pic of what you made anyway.

[Martin Blair]

good idea but no, those things would ahve wholes in them from rocks first time out. And they would break off easy.

You need to make fiberglass hoods, something that is in a area that doesnt bend. Like copy the looks of the quadtech hoods, closely not exactly, and sell you fiberglass hoods for say 40 a piece.

I might buy a fiberglass hood it it looks good, but plastics, no way.

[toby400ex]

Didnt some of the old 3 wheelers have fiberglass fenders? And they sucked?:huh

[400ex28]

SHOW SOME PICS!!!!!

[DangerousDean]

Originally posted by UglyMotha™
:huh can't say i've seen many speedboats, speedway cars, drag cars, planes, or yachts clearing doubles :rolleyes:

sleds use fiberglass hoods, and they go WAY bigger then quads....
they seem to be working fine

edit: oops.. didnt know how old this thread was :confused:

[UglyMotha™]

Originally posted by DangerousDean
sleds use fiberglass hoods, and they go WAY bigger then quads....
they seem to be working fine

edit: oops.. didnt know how old this thread was :confused:



does a sled hood flop around like the fenders on your quad................... NO :o

[SHOCKER]

Originally posted by UglyMotha™
fiberglass fenders just won't hold up to the shock and abuse that most people put thier bikes thru really has nothing to do with skill and since you seem to think of yourself as so high and mighty learn to be a better speller, it's breaking :huh

uh they will hold up to the shock abuse because the old 3-wheelrs had them and i still have a rear fenders from a old honda trike, and if the guy learns to ride better he wont crash

[UglyMotha™]

:rolleyes:

[SHOCKER]

geez, some people are just know-it-alls, cant take that your wrong