Ducati Monster Forum

As the topic states I am on the fence when it comes to running a front fender on my bike.  I have been running without a fender for the past season and besides a random rock here and their I can live with it. I feel having the front wheel exposed goes with the whole industrial/hooligan look these bikes have going for them. Then I got caught in the rain which lead me to re-install the stock front fender (which I think is ugly as sin).Here's how the bike looks currently (before I put the stock fender back on):
So, If you would be so kind please post a pic of your non stock fender on the front of your monster (and please let me know where you picked it up from/what it came offa).. I have seen a few different examples that look better than stock, just not sure where they came from. If I do run a front fender I want it to be as small as possibile, but yet still catch crap (and keep it outta my face)...

All help/advice is much appreciated...

I liked it 2yrs ago, not so much anymore.


(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/chiflado/Daryl_July_30_004.jpg)

I did the same , loved the look without a fender but as I commute rain was a real issue .
So I picked up a cheap second hand fender from this forum,
 then cut it right down re shaped it (leaving about an inch from the strut) by using the original curve as a templet
 started with a hand saw to get the basic shape then a variable speed sander then hand sanded with a block then re sprayed .

I will try to get a photo , IMO it looks a lot better than the original long fender and way cheaper than CF.

Heres my DP alloy one .
(http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/89_168/200_15/IM000961.jpg) (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/89_168/200_15/IM000961.jpg)

buell xb series fenders look good, to me, on the bike. But you need to make a bracket on each side to mount it.

Oh and they are cheap

PIC

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg305/truckinduc900/ducride093.jpg)

You could try something like this.

(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/chiflado/3056084160_51b8c8b84f_o.jpg)

Gt 1000 fender

(http://phardy.indbelt.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=135910&g2_serialNumber=2)

That's a Roadracing not a DP

Must say man, I'm in love with your bike. Not only dose it look cool as hell sans front and rear fenders but the backdrops you put it against really bring the details out!


In the process of street fightering out my 99' 900ss and wanted to know how/where you blacked out your upper fork tubes. It's the only thing that has been bugging my about blacking out the rest of the frame and still having these blazingly silver forks.

here's my monster with a CF fender from a 1098

(http://www.barnold.com/img/ducati/headlight03.jpg)

ProTeal55, I am with you on this, for a good run of 3 years I also went with out one, here is how it was than.
 
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2654382613_e487430a8e_b.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2321/2484859332_c19ee68f8c_b.jpg)

And for the same reasons as you I ended up with this from Monster Parts.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/3018558886_ed0f9443ec.jpg)



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you have a really cool looking bike.

My old frontfender.

Celli


(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll286/StradaleNuda/marcel30.jpg)

I have this front fender.. .possibly for sale. It's a DP part

Also a DP but painted
(http://supertjeduc.zenfolio.com/img/v0/p860740427-4.jpg)

Thanks for the kind words. My bike is really nothing more than some stock parts coated black, and lots of hours of staring at it seeing what I can ditch to make the overall bike look "cleaner"...

As far as my blacked out fork tubes go, they are powdercoated along with the rest of the black bits on the bike.
My buddy does custom powdercoating here in the burbs of Chicago HTTP://WWW.THEPOWDERPRO.COM (http://HTTP://WWW.THEPOWDERPRO.COM), so when he said he would coat my parts I gave him EVERYTHING. Allot of people said to not powdercoat the fork tubes becasue it would be a pregnant dog to get thru the triple tree's, but some time (and keeping the tree's open with a clothes pin) got the fork tubes thru without messing them up. Only have two little scratches which you can barely see. Plus it's nice to have everything on the bike the with the same coating/color/finish/etc. The swingarm matches the forks which match the controls and so on. Still a bunch of stuff to black out on the bike, but the major things are done (exhaust/powdercoat/etc).

i think a st4 front fender with "vents" cut out on each side to air it up would look perfect on your bike. add some pc'd mesh in there to go along with theme..

Q

I couldn't fault LT Snyder's logic regarding protection of the slider surface, and went with a **8 superbike front fender.  Bolts right up (to a 2003 M800) and no worries about rock divots.  Sorry, no pic, I can get one if you're interested.

you know the Ducati St4 , don't you? It was a touring oriented Ducati, there were 2 generations between 98 and 04. there were a couple different engine configurations mated to the frame, a 2v and a 4v, known as St2 and St4. The St4s was equiped with the usual Ohlins goodies, etc...

Either way, the front fender with a triangular cut out on each side ie: (http://www.speedycom.co.uk/shop/pictures/thumbnails/t_16898.jpg)
and
(http://www.oppracing.com/image.php?image=pr2475_1.jpg)

Q

Mine with a 999 fender on it.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/3767623625_406c98bfd2.jpg)

...and the ST3.

What all did you have to do to get that mounted up ?
From the pics looks like the mounting is abit different than the stock Monster setup..

With a fender like this one, with a back half that is barely there, do you actually get any more rain protection than riding with no front fender at all?

Thats a good question. [thumbsup]
No need to go and get a new fender if it does the same as not running one at all...

Yes it does. The rain water is thrown off the tire at a tangent. then the wind does some odd stuff with it.  That setup, with the stock single round, will still offer good rain protection to the rider.

I haven't ridden much in the rain, so this may be a stupid question.

When you get wet riding, is that primarily from water coming off the front of the tire and then blowing back at you?

From the front wheel, yes. From the backwheel, you get swampass.

It'd take some custom fab to mount this style fender...the Ohlins forks (and 749/999 forks) have a single bolt mounting point in the front and back of the fork bottom, which do away with the plastic "bands" that wrap around the fork bottom.

I mounted it when the wheels were off getting painted.
As for rain protection, it isn't any worse than a stock fender.
I got caught a few weeks back, it was a short sharp down pour and I managed to stay pretty dry.
My theory is, if you want to stay dry drive a car. Sometimes your gonna get wet on a bike.