Mine is black on blue but it looks fine. I didn't want to drill either so i used a large amount of araldite and it's just lasted it's first few hundred miles (hitting some speed too).

Well worth it imo.

Hey,

I myself do not do alot of wet riding or any at all for that matter. I still find the fender extender valuable keeping stones and road grim off of my engine, radiator, oil cooler, etc.

Here is what I had done to my fender extender taken from this thread:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...FrontRight.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rUnderside.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rontFender.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...March20051.jpg


Thanks,

Mitch

If you look at an older SV which has been ridden through the winter, the starter motor gets quite discoloured and corroded where the salty spray hits it. My SV is in very good condition and is 5 years old and has only done 4kmiles, my engine still looks in farely new conditon, but the body of the starter has a stain where the wheel spray has hit.

It is essential to reduce this spray by the installation of a fender extender, and possibly even a belly pan for even better protection, I have not seen a belly pan in real life yet so cannot really comment.

Get out and ride more :shock: :shock:

A fender extender doesn't make any difference at all to this- unless you get one that goes most of the way around the wheel. I doubt it protects the oil cooler on a K3> much either. If you're worried about protecting your starter motor (for some reason) then a bellypan's the only thing that'll make any difference.

Myself, I think they do nothing at all for protecting the front pot from water that can't be done better and invisibly with a bit of nonconductive grease (£3 from Halfords for a tube that'll last you forever, and only seems to need done on spark plug changes). I doubt they do a huge amount for the radiator either- yes, it could protect it from stones, but that doesn't happen very often.

What it does do, is help keep thge front of the bike a bit cleaner, and it probably helps keep the engine casing paint in better nick (which is a very good thing). Btu I certainly wouldn't consider it anything like essential.

Northwind said:

You may well be right Northwind. But some of the standing water that exists in long stretches along the M65 I would prefer to trust to a solid object, like plastic, rather than a material such as grease that can degrade over time. You never know when that moment of degradation will arrive :shock: ! Plus, we are likely to experience larger downpours of greater intensity due to the greenhouse/carbon emissions effect.

I don't know why Suzuki dont supply them with a bigger front mudguard as standard?! :?

Y'see, I've had front pot "moments" even with the fender extender- I presume because it's not totally effective while cornering, or something. But I've never had any problems with the grease solution, despite having gone swimming a few times :) So I trust the grease more than the extender. I was thinking of fitting a new one to the GSXR front, but I doubt I'll bother. See how it gets on in the winter...

I'm not anti-extenda or anything... I think mine was a pretty handy accessory when I was using it, definately worth the money.

Hmm ....interesting that one Northwind. Maybe I should get a little grease on the front-pot to be doubly sure.

Cheers

Tony :D