35mm Narrow Glide Fork Brace

1986 fxrd narrow glide fork brace

I’ve been interested in fork brace for 35mm Showa Narrow Glide Forks for a long time. This time, I accidentally acquired an aluminum fender for 19 inch tyres. So I decided to make a fender support bracket which can also be used as a front fork stabilizer.

harley-davidson 35mm narrow fork brace

As narrow glide forks literally don’t have much more space than necessary between both fork tubes, considering the strength of the parts, I tried to go with a 2.3mm thickness stainless steel plate as main body instead of aluminum plates.

harley davidson narrow glide fork brace

I made two aluminum rods which would bridge both stainless steel plates. The material of the rods are aluminum alloy 6061.

harley davidson narrow glide fork brace

I drilled to make a hole on the center of each rod to put through a screw to hold fender.

Harley Davidson 35mm narrow glide fork brace

This is the aluminum fender which I acquired not long ago. I suppose it was a fender for Yamaha SR400 which was equipped with 19 inch front tyre like Harley-Davidson FXR models.

1986 fxrd narrow glide fork brace

I drilled two holes on the center of the fender for screws. Regrettably, several holes are remaining on either side of the fender which have been used on SR400. I must weld and fill them in the future.

1986 fxrd narrow glide fork brace

Finally, I put them on my FXRD. It seems that nothing could be a trouble. There is enough clearance between the bracket, fender and tyre.

1986 fxrd narrow glide fork brace

1986 fxrd narrow glide fork brace

At last, I’ve done test riding and checked how it worked.

I could feel slightly that the bracket stabilized wobbling of the forks especially turning right or left.

I’m going to continue test riding for a while since I think there are several critical elements demanding for motorcycle parts and durability is one of the most important elements of them all.

harley davidson 1986 fxrd with fork brace

Restocked – FXRD FXRT fairing Aluminum Speaker Covers

FXRT, FXRD fairing aluminum speaker covers

FXRT, FXRD fairing aluminum speaker covers

3 sets of “aluminum and brass speaker covers” for FXRD (FXRT) fairing are restocked.

A6061 Speaker Covers with Brass Plates Ver2 for FXRD fairing

FXRT, FXRD fairing aluminum speaker covers

This time, I changed material of the base parts from A5052 to A6061 with the intention of improving the overall look of the products.

FXRT, FXRD fairing aluminum speaker covers

Each speaker cover is consists of a6061 aluminum base part and etched brass plate.
Mounting hardware (brass slotted screws and wellnuts) are included.

*The dimensions of the base parts and Harley-Davidson original plastic covers are identical.
*When installing, minor modification (enlarging the holes for wellnuts) is necessary.

FXRT, FXRD fairing aluminum speaker covers