Inter-changable parts on a 2000 Honda Shadow Aero vs 2000 ..

On Jun 6, 4:03 am, poppin_... DeleteThis @yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jun 5, 6:08 pm, Mike <miked... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > I'm on the market for a new front fender for my 2000 Honda Shadow ACE
> > 750. I've been doing a little bit of digging around, and I found a
> > front fender for a 2000 Honda Shadow Aero 750.
>
> > I was wondering if anyone knows if this front fender for a Aero will
> > fit on my ACE.
>
> > Thanks for the help!!
>
> > Mike
>
> I dont know if they are interchangeable or not, but have you tried
> looking on ebay? I too have a 2000 Honda Shadow 750 ACE, and just
> replaced the scratched/dented tank with a new one from there. Looks
> great!!
>
> Good luck,
> Con

Yeah, that is actually where I found the front fender for the Aero.

Thanks

Mike
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On Jun 5, 4:08?pm, Mike <miked....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knows if this front fender for a Aero will
> fit on my ACE.

If you can find the original Honda part numbers in an online catalog,
look for fenders with the same *basic* part number.

Even though the Japanese companies may make a quarter of a million of
the exact same front fender and install it on the same basic
motorcycle for a 15 year production run, the demand for
cosmetic change means that the basic part will need a different *dash*
number if it's painted a different color.

The thing about cruiser riders is that they want to feel like they are
riding a custom motorcycle with custom paint and chrome, so the
manufacturers cater to this by offering different fenders and wire
spoke rims instead of cast aluminum rims, etc.

And all this desire to be "different" while riding a mass produced
motorcycle results in hundreds of different part numbers bolting up to
the same forks.



Back in the early days, if we found a fender that came off of another
model but the price was right, we would re-drill the holes so they
would line up, paint the reworked fender with a rattle can, wait until
it was dry and bolt it on and then go have a beer.

Back in those days, we knew that we owned our motorcycle, we weren't
making payments hoping it wouldn't be re-po'd and we weren't expecting
to sell our customized machine to some highly critical yuppie, because
yuppies hadn't been invented yet, and there was no need for consumers
either.

We found the bits we needed and made them work.

But it's a whole different scene now. RUB's expect to buy "custom"
bikes at a huge emporium that caters to the rich and famous.
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"Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad" <rechazo.todo DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 5, 4:08?pm, Mike <miked... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone knows if this front fender for a Aero will
>> fit on my ACE.
>
> If you can find the original Honda part numbers in an online catalog,
> look for fenders with the same *basic* part number.
>
> Even though the Japanese companies may make a quarter of a million of
> the exact same front fender and install it on the same basic
> motorcycle for a 15 year production run, the demand for
> cosmetic change means that the basic part will need a different *dash*
> number if it's painted a different color.
>
> The thing about cruiser riders is that they want to feel like they are
> riding a custom motorcycle with custom paint and chrome, so the
> manufacturers cater to this by offering different fenders and wire
> spoke rims instead of cast aluminum rims, etc.
>
> And all this desire to be "different" while riding a mass produced
> motorcycle results in hundreds of different part numbers bolting up to
> the same forks.
>
>
>
> Back in the early days, if we found a fender that came off of another
> model but the price was right, we would re-drill the holes so they
> would line up, paint the reworked fender with a rattle can, wait until
> it was dry and bolt it on and then go have a beer.
>
> Back in those days, we knew that we owned our motorcycle, we weren't
> making payments hoping it wouldn't be re-po'd and we weren't expecting
> to sell our customized machine to some highly critical yuppie, because
> yuppies hadn't been invented yet, and there was no need for consumers
> either.
>
> We found the bits we needed and made them work.
>
> But it's a whole different scene now. RUB's expect to buy "custom"
> bikes at a huge emporium that caters to the rich and famous.
>
>

I'll push this a bit further: I'm amused at the use of the word 'custom'
when it involves use of interchangeable parts. In my book, you don't
"customize" with a wrench. Most is merely random reassembly. Much is also
grotesque.
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On Jun 7, 12:09?pm, "Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhamm... DeleteThis @yahoo.com>
wrote:
> "Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad" <rechazo.t... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1181238728.472457.218030@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

> I'll push this a bit further: I'm amused at the use of the word 'custom'
> when it involves use of interchangeable parts. In my book, you don't
> "customize" with a wrench. Most is merely random reassembly. Much is also
> grotesque.

Grotesque?

Reminds me of the metrosexual who was walking his poodle. He
encountered another man who had the ugliest animal imaginable on a
chain. It was squatty and built really low to the ground and it had a
long snout and big teeth and no hair at all.

The poodle quickly ran over to sniff the second dog's butt and assert
its dominance. The ugly animal killed the poodle and ate it.

The metrosexual wrang his hands and whined, "How could you just stand
there
and let your mean old dog eat my poor little Fifi?"

The other guy said, "What dog? That's my pet alligator and he's in a
bad mood because I cut his tail off."

I remember seeing Harley 45's running around with the tractor seat and
no rear fender. That's what reminded me of he angry alligator.

Some of the earliest choppers were in fact grotesque-looking, after
all the saddlebags and windshields and floorboards and general garbage
wagon parts were stripped off of them.

Customization consisted of stripping a stock bike to its bare
essentials and maybe
adding some hotrod styling to it like pinstripes and flames.

Nowdays, anybody with a credit card can buy a mass produced Japanese
cruiser and hang a dream catcher on the sissy bar and call it a
"custom".

I watch those showswhere the custom fabricators make a one-off frame
and gas tank and seat and weird handlebars and headlight brackets.

The always get their engine from a company that makes aftermarket
Harleyesque engines.

The frames are custom if they are one off, but I don't see anybody
building truly custom motors. If an engine part breaks, new parts can
be ordered, and, while they are limited production bits, they aren't
exactly custom.

Some friends of mine built an endurance roadracer once, just to run it
in the 6-Hour at Ontario. They were cutting parts off the frame with a
welding torch and saying they didn't need this or that, cutting it off
would make it lighter.

When they were done, they had a custom one-off aluminum gas tank and
seat and oil tank, and custom exhaust pipes unlike anything else in
the world and they were making custom lightweight footpegs, and I
asked them what they would do if they crashed early in the race, were
they going to stop and build new custom parts before getting back into
the race?

Another guy I knew had a custom built frame wrapped around a Japanese
4 cylinder engine. It was beautifully crafted, with the best Italian
suspension components, wheels, and brakes, but the owner couldn't ride
it, it had been designed to fit a much smaller man...

There is a definite practicality in using mass produced parts and
staying close to
stock, however non-custom that may be. You can cut the bike's tail off
later...
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"Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad" <rechazo.todo.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 7, 12:09?pm, "Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhamm....DeleteThis@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> "Two Wheels Good, Four Wheels Bad" <rechazo.t....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in
>> messagenews:1181238728.472457.218030@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>
>> I'll push this a bit further: I'm amused at the use of the word 'custom'
>> when it involves use of interchangeable parts. In my book, you don't
>> "customize" with a wrench. Most is merely random reassembly. Much is
>> also
>> grotesque.
>
> Grotesque?
>
> Reminds me of the metrosexual who was walking his poodle. He
> encountered another man who had the ugliest animal imaginable on a
> chain. It was squatty and built really low to the ground and it had a
> long snout and big teeth and no hair at all.
>
> The poodle quickly ran over to sniff the second dog's butt and assert
> its dominance. The ugly animal killed the poodle and ate it.
>
> The metrosexual wrang his hands and whined, "How could you just stand
> there
> and let your mean old dog eat my poor little Fifi?"
>
> The other guy said, "What dog? That's my pet alligator and he's in a
> bad mood because I cut his tail off."
>
> I remember seeing Harley 45's running around with the tractor seat and
> no rear fender. That's what reminded me of he angry alligator.
>
> Some of the earliest choppers were in fact grotesque-looking, after
> all the saddlebags and windshields and floorboards and general garbage
> wagon parts were stripped off of them.
>
> Customization consisted of stripping a stock bike to its bare
> essentials and maybe
> adding some hotrod styling to it like pinstripes and flames.
>
> Nowdays, anybody with a credit card can buy a mass produced Japanese
> cruiser and hang a dream catcher on the sissy bar and call it a
> "custom".
>
> I watch those showswhere the custom fabricators make a one-off frame
> and gas tank and seat and weird handlebars and headlight brackets.
>
> The always get their engine from a company that makes aftermarket
> Harleyesque engines.
>
> The frames are custom if they are one off, but I don't see anybody
> building truly custom motors. If an engine part breaks, new parts can
> be ordered, and, while they are limited production bits, they aren't
> exactly custom.
>
> Some friends of mine built an endurance roadracer once, just to run it
> in the 6-Hour at Ontario. They were cutting parts off the frame with a
> welding torch and saying they didn't need this or that, cutting it off
> would make it lighter.
>
> When they were done, they had a custom one-off aluminum gas tank and
> seat and oil tank, and custom exhaust pipes unlike anything else in
> the world and they were making custom lightweight footpegs, and I
> asked them what they would do if they crashed early in the race, were
> they going to stop and build new custom parts before getting back into
> the race?
>
> Another guy I knew had a custom built frame wrapped around a Japanese
> 4 cylinder engine. It was beautifully crafted, with the best Italian
> suspension components, wheels, and brakes, but the owner couldn't ride
> it, it had been designed to fit a much smaller man...
>
> There is a definite practicality in using mass produced parts and
> staying close to
> stock, however non-custom that may be. You can cut the bike's tail off
> later...
>
>

Sickle engineering isn't for amateurs, unless Form is more important than
Function. Proper design has Form following Function. If your Form is to
look like monkeybars, call the results Function. Heh.
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