Finally got around to cutting my fenders... went with the shaved style. I used a Dremel for the cuts, a file to knock off the burs and get a better shape, then a razor blade to fine tune and smooth everything. Next step will be wetsanding and then flat black paint.
Before

Back

Back angle

Front angle

Front

... cut off the pieces that go down that are going to take your knees out

+1! They look horrible too IMO

yea, +1 for cutting the backs off those fenders, and mabey a wash too, LOL.

front look fine...i would never cut the rears like that...clean that thing up..

wtf.. sumone went a little overboard

Good thing its my quad, eh? I forgot about the back of the front fenders, I meant to trim those down.

They look like elephant ears : (

whoa, i didnt notice the rears. I really hope all your doin is sand riding, or your gunna regret that big time.

a shorter, if not no rear, will look good on 'er.

what kind of heel guards are those?

thats the GYTR Kickstart one.

WAIT! whaaaaaat?!?! dont paint youre plastics, they vibrate over small bumpe more than you know, it will chip and crack and make youre quad, look..... uhmm, rather, nice... with chipping paint. not to mention it rubs off with riding (boots/pants)

I normally ride with no plastics on anyway, and those are GYT-R heelgaurds.

why would you ride with out plastics? thats like riding with out a helmet!

You have a differant approach to this whole riding thing eh ? lol .. The fronts arn't equal.

as my daughter would say OMG i never understood cutting plastics.i did it on my banshee and regreted it every ride.hope you ride the dunes.

I know its your quad and all but that thing just looks molested...

no hard feelings to the owner, but X2 man, i agree with you. keep it clean!

I clean it after each ride, I had just got done riding an hour before these pics were taken and hadn't gotten a chance to clean it yet. Like I've said already though, the small fenders won't affect me because I rarely ride with plastics on because I take them off to clean it anyway, or when I work on it. Besides that most of the mounting tabs are messed up from the previous owner, and the locking tabs on the tank cover and side covers don't stay together and it annoy me when I ride.

fail

OK?

thats a 'lil overboard. if a quads got problems, fix 'em.

buy new plastics and self tapping screws if the metal mounts on the frame gone to $h!t

The plastic tabs on the body is what's worn out, and I'm not gonna waste $500 on a few pieces of plastic when I can just ride without them or zip tie them together. My dirtbike is a different story, I'd gladly spend the money on it because it's not ridiculously expensive to buy new fenders. I just put a new rear fender on my dirtbike yesterday as a matter of fact, the ground ate the last one :(

you ride with no plastics.















i've been thinking of something to say for a little over an hour now.
and i just can't seem to come up with anything.

true that.

look in the "for sale" section and look for a used set.

Why? So he can molest them again?




Okay, that is the last post for me on this thread.

ok, lets not be mean to the guy.

well ya, i mean i sat here tryin to think of something funny to say without being too mean and i just couldn't do it.


i have mixed feelings. i find it rather appalling that someone would actually ride without plastics other than to just give'er a test run up and down the road. and i also think only a retard would ride without plastics on a regular basis. i also feel like this dude just effed up his plastics so bad trying to do a cut that he's "claiming" that he rides without them so it doesn't matter. its like talking to a 10 yr old.
10 yr old - " look at my cool brand news Pro Wings shoes."
other kids - "Pro Wings suck dude."
10 yr old - "ya, i don't wear shoes anyway."

yea, i get what you are saying, and this and your last post where quite funny LOL.

^ haha, the 10 year old thing kicks ass!

well i'm glad some one gets my jokes :)

You guys are mean! But so is he for doing that to his poor defensless YFZ.

lolz



no, we are open minded.

Uh? Might as well just finish em off... No point in having anything there now?

lol this thread should probably be closed so he doesnt get more abuse and sell off his quad and leave the forum.

Don't worry, the quad's not goin' anywhere... I'd sell my YZ250 before my YFZ any day ;)

smart move!

Even though my YZ is faster, and easier and cheaper to maintain :/ I'm thinking about trading them both in for a 2010 YZ450F or a YFZ450r though.

id hold off on the YFZ-R untill they can get the front end and a few electrical issues worked out.

get one of the newer old schoold YFZ's if you want a new one.

----- and ride with your plastics on it!!! lol.

Newer old shooled YFZ? I'm not sure what you mean...

Like a 08 09 YFZ vrs the R

That's what I figured you meant. I'm not a big fan of the way the '09 and '10's look anyway, I was thinking about getting an '07 though (still affordable, but more reliable than my '05). Right now though I can't do anything until I get a new crank for mine :/

i got my '07 for pretty cheap. i love my quad.

Well I suppose that once I finish rebuilding my '05 (which consists of at least a new crank and an '07 oil pump, squirter, and clutch cover, possibly a stroker crank though), I might as well keep it seeing as I've got so much into it already. I don't wanna pay for another kickstart kit and GYT-R exhaust for an '07, not to mention all the other crap I've done to it myself...

you can always swap the mods and keep your '05 as back-up.

x2 EPIC FAILURE!!!
with all the nice looking fender cuts out there u decided on that one...
to each his own i guess lol u my friend deffinatly are different

thats just uncalled for and harsh.

each to his own for sure, but not everyone can blow cash out of their a$$ to buy a new quad.

(ecks) -just keep wrenching on man, and rebuild that '05!

What are you? The hall monitor? The guy asked for opinions on his cut fenders and, that's exactly what he is getting.

Ecks, if you ever have cutters remorse, I got a set of white plastics; unmolested. I'll sell cheap.

of corse. im the "hall monitor"

and it obviously wasnt a very good comment. if i where to say i didnt like it, id say it isnt me, or not my kind of cut. atleast be polite about it, not throw him down. or at least joke about it.

Actually, I have a friend that's looking for some white plastics, I'll see if he's interested. How are all the mounting tabs? Oh, and I think I've decided on what to do with it... I wanna put the Falicon Minotaur kit on it, but it's probably gonna be a loooooong time before I have the cash for that. I figure though, if I'm gonna go big, I might as well go really big :)