Replica front mudguards from David Silver

[SteveW]

Has anyone bought one?
Just wondering what the fit / quality is like before I possibly get one for my 550.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I fitted one to my 500, IIRC it has slightly bigger bottom fittings with rubber eyes, mine fitted after a bit of a struggle.

It was getting the stays to sit right that was a fiddle, link to my post, unfortunately the photo was deleted by me on Flickr.
www.sohc.co.uk/index.php/topic,29256.0.html

[Athame57]

mine fitted after a bit of a struggle.

You try fitting one of their tanks! 

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

mine fitted after a bit of a struggle.

You try fitting one of their tanks! 

I did wonder if they ever altered the tank design from the supplier after your fitting problems.

[SteveW]

Could I use my existing stays on the new mudguard?

[Bryanj]

in theory yes, in practice who knows, you may well be the guinea pig

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Could I use my existing stays on the new mudguard?

If it helps I did eventually get the stays to fit, I loosened the stay to fender bolts considerably, the main culprit was the end of one stay where the metal is doubled up, the back layer was a tad on the wide side. I did not want to grind off the excess as that would have removed the chrome plating. A small amount of extra bend angle on the fork end of the stay enabled it to fit, I then tgihtened up the stay to fender brackets last.

[Athame57]

If it helps I did eventually get the stays to fit,

I think DSS is big and organised enough to supply some instructions from the start when these things are needed. 

[TezzerTel]

Mine fitted ok.  It was a bit of a wrestle to get the stays on to the fork but not too difficult