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Today I installed a shorty rear fender, I had a fender painted black for another build. I cut the mounting tab off that would normally be used for the lower fender bolt , drilled a hole and mounted it from the bolt of the rear hand brake
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Next I dug out the Iron cross chopper head badge
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I have shown earlier in this build. I cleaned off the sticker residue of old sticker badge with some 00 steel wool soaked with paint thinner. With headlight back on it’s not real visible.
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Next worked on making a mounting bracket for my iron cross sissy bar ornament that I cut from a 6” pizza pan. (Took OddJobs suggestion and mounted without backing plate) I just used some metal pipe hanger strapping for the bracket ( forgot to take pic) and mounted iron cross with a small round domed reflector with a bolt on the back through a hole I drilled in the middle of the cross. Not sure I like reflector for mount, may change to bolt with acorn nut.
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Thanks Matti, wish I could take the credit and always make ‘em look like this, But with the back fender bracket being on sissy bar, its simple. You can slide the fender up and down to really dial the height in. So it was easy and was the design of install rather than any expertise on my part.
 
Agree with Matti, fender work is great. And that Iron Cross worked out perfectly!
 
Getting back to working on Chopper X after spending a lot of time concentrating on off road builds. First I decided to go reinstall the iron cross chainring. Then awhile back I ordered some 3” brass colored drink coasters off Amazon. I thought they would be the perfect size to try to make some iron cross hubcaps / axle spinners? For this build.
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I also had a black seat bag just like the brown one on bike earlier in build, I put it on. There was a big void between seat and reflector and it fills the void. Got a few ideas to maybe dress it up alittle.
 
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