Originally Posted by
Commodus
Bit of a hack-job there, no offense.
I've mounted three different sets of fenders (I keep breaking them in crashes) on my Sutra. All it takes is a little bending, no big deal, no splicing or stacks of nuts or other such nonsense. I've come to see it as kind of an art, getting the bends just right. Box-end wrench helps a lot.
I'll take some photos tomorrow, post 'em up.
That being said, it's too right it's a silly place to put a caliper. I mean a few bends is no big deal, but shouldn't really be required. All rectified now, as of the 2010 version.
Almost all fender installs are a hack job of one kind or another, and bends are hacks. I didn't want to bend the stays because I don't like the way that looks. And as I said in my post, the stay was not long enough to reach the fender with the braze-on placement on the Sutra, hence the splice. No amount of bending with that stay was going to make it reach the fender and keep it from rubbing the tire.