Keep cracking front fender

does the damage look the same on both sides?

The first is from the right side and the second is from the left...
So yeah, they prake pretty much the same..
But this is the first time it's broken both sides... Last year it only broke the right one.. :banghead:
 
it seems like it caused by some kind of impact to the fender. How does your radiator look? Any contact with the lip of the fender?
 
it seems like it caused by some kind of impact to the fender. How does your radiator look? Any contact with the lip of the fender?

Yeah it does, doesn't it... ???
Radiator is okay as well.. It's not lowered in the front just jacked up in the rear so it shouldn't be able to touch anything...
I've been thinking that it could be the brakehose beeing to short but I've had both stockers and the steel ones I've got on now...With the same issue..
And I've jacked up the bike with a lift which lifts under the triple tree and the lines are long enough...Not much to spare but anyway...
 
That could be caused by a fork that's crooked, like as if one slid up more then the other side, check to make sure fork lengths are exactly on par. If one of the fork is higher in the triple tree then the other side it will cause the fender to crack there. It could also be from a loose axle or bad fork. Whatever it is its causing the lower half to flex independently and not in pairs like it should.
 
That could be caused by a fork that's crooked, like as if one slid up more then the other side, check to make sure fork lengths are exactly on par. If one of the fork is higher in the triple tree then the other side it will cause the fender to crack there. It could also be from a loose axle or bad fork. Whatever it is its causing the lower half to flex independently and not in pairs like it should.

Thanks.. I'll check it out.. Pretty sure they're in the same place in
the triple tree 'cause I put the forks in without the triple tree inst. then pushed the fork down with the triple tree, tightened it, let the whole bike down on the frontwheel and then tightened each forkleg (what's it called?)
so they should be installed at the exact same height..

The axel, as everything else, it tightened with a torquewrench..
If a put the two "forklegs" beside each other on a table I don't see any difference but perhaps it doesn't need that much to be crooked?

Sixpack577 said something about the fork not beeing square, how to I make sure they are?
 
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