Race cut banshees pics please

[Mxjunkie]

I just rebuilt my banshee from the frame up but I was sitting here wondering, I do ride xc, harescrambles but for the most part I will be riding around my field and tracks.

should I cut them and how? I was thing just hack them completely off and leaving the 2-3inch strip

[Mxjunkie]

what do you guys think? cut them?

[EvilJester400EX]

Cut them at the part where they start to rise up, I hate the way Banshee's look without a little something on the fender.

[Mxjunkie]

Like this?

[Myrtle150]

You should go over to bansheehq.com and get some ideas.

[bradley300]

one of the newer dirt wheels has a pic of the banshee at point de veax with cut fenders

[Dupontster]

I would cut them:)

[EvilJester400EX]

Yeah, like the picture you posted.

[400exrider707]

Originally posted by EvilJester400EX
Yeah, like the picture you posted.

[fastkid400]

I think it looks sick with full fenders...

[woodsZrider]

Originally posted by fastkid400
I think it looks sick with full fenders...

yea don't cut them...;)
it looks good the way it is.

[T2RACING]

If you do any type of riding on anything except pavement you will regret the cut.. trust me cut mine and had to by new ones after...

[m250r]

yeah bro especially for XC races...dont cut em

[Mxjunkie]

Originally posted by m250r
yeah bro especially for XC races...dont cut em

Yeah at dutchmen I'd be covered :o

[m250r]

i had race cut Maiers for 1 race at dutchmen and then i said screw this and bought the add-ons

btw: have you talked to anyone about the prizes from the build-off yhet?

[TCracin440ex]

hack um off you wont get no muddier w/ them then what you will without um...trust me...i have shaved front plastics on my 400ex and i love it...and dont really get any more mud on me than what i did when i had them so....hack away

[TCracin440ex]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4553667425&category=6725


here is a shee with shaved fronts just so you can get an idea


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4553752795&category=6725

another sheee

[T2RACING]

Dont know first hand on an ex but on a shee I was covered 5 times as bad when I didnt have the fenders. Any kind of curve you took your goggles get covered along with everything else like that. The fenders stop that type of spray.. imo

[nacs400ex]

Well if you have extended a-arms your wheels stick out about a foot from the fenders anyways, theres no use for them. I have ridden XC, MX and have yet to found them useful, it also looks a lot cleaner with them cut.

[TCracin440ex]

it really aint that bad if you kno how to ride and you see a mudpuddle commin up you can wheelie over it and not get any mud on you

[m250r]

Originally posted by TCracin440ex
it really aint that bad if you kno how to ride and you see a mudpuddle commin up you can wheelie over it and not get any mud on you

yea :rolleyes:

[400ex28]

Chop em;)

[TCracin440ex]

and the jurry says.....CUT UM!!

[TCracin440ex]

Originally posted by m250r
yea :rolleyes:


i kno ive done it a few times....but your riddin quads for christ sake...its just mud you cant expect not to get muddy, and not only that....the new invention soap....mix it with a lil water and what do you kno...your clean again

[m250r]

TCracin440ex....have u raced a XC race before with your plastics like that? my guess would be no being as you have mx tires on it. Its not right to talk like you everything about chopping your plastics if you never actually had experience in a race

[TCracin440ex]

dude you have no idea what ive done with my bike...

[m250r]

sweet man

cut them off

[JR3]

Josh its mainly personal preference. Ride a quad with them cut the ride yours and see. Me i like seeing my front tires and on the track i have yet to get hit with anything but since u are doing xc u might get some mud on u. But me personally i like it for looks and i dunno i just prefer riding a quad with cut fenders heres a pic of my 400ex with cut fronts.(just bringing it back up from a tilt) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/250ex3/100_2416.jpg

[FoxMxRiders]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/DMCBAnshee/apres.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v486/DMCBAnshee/installer.jpg

I like it

[rollie]

^^^ thats sick!!!:blah:

[400ex28]

heres a pic of me goin though mud with cut fenders.....it don't bother me

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid150/p81d2603e32439bc56e7d9f79db6294b6/f5ee0be3.jpg

[LeGaCyGiAnT124]

josh id say to not cut them. it looks fine how it is:)

[blue416ex]

my old white one with cut fenders the FIRST day i bought it i chopped them i couldnt stand them :devil:

[Sjorge450R]

Yeah I have stock plastic on my 300ex and i am thinking about cutting them just because they are all scratched up to begin with and if I like I am going to be the maier racing cut plastic. I have ridden with cut and not cut fenders and there really is no difference, you cant avoid the mud. also, does anyone have any suggestions on my color choice for my new fenders? Thanks

[DH400EX]

cut them jus like the pic u posted, that would look badass:devil:

[bwamos]

Fenders don't always help.. lol

I still run them on my 300 though.

Here's a good example Mike Lucas #228 gives us of a muddy XC race. (pulled off of one of the race reviews from this site)