Hi Bo,
I am curious, does the fender with the rivets mounted farther forward than normal, cause the rear stays to sit higher than normal? Normally the rear (bottom) fender stay is parallel with ground. When the fender with the rivets place farther is mounted does the stay sit higher than normal, not parallel with ground?
Thanks for any info on this topic.
Best,
Duane

Sent PM.
Duane

Here is my personal opinion. I think the Candy Blue Green paint starts out a lighter shade and fades darker with age.
See attached photo. The photo is from an original Sandcast oil tank cover.

The Candy Ruby Red does the opposite and fade out to a lighter color, eventually turning a yellow.beige color.

The original CBG paint (50 years) turns darker from my experience.

Duane

KP,
The double cut front fender from Yamiya is not the same fender as the one I purchased in the past from Motorcycle Seats Direct (Vietnam).  There might be several Vietnam suppliers?
 I have purchased a double cut front fender from both of these two suppliers.  Yamiya 's double cut fender is slightly higher quality, but neither are very good repops of the originals. Yamiya's fender is not bad, but bracket is way off and very thin material. The Yamiya bracket is not even a close replica of Honda originals.
The fender from Motorcycle Seats Direct had issues with the chrome and was really waving and lower quality overall.
Yamiya price is +$1,000 and Motorcycle Seat Direct is +$230 USD (excludes shipping)
I would buy the Vietnam double cut fender for a daily rider before I would spend the money on another Yamiya double cut front fender.  Yamiya needs to do a serious rework on their bracket in my opinion, other s views may differ.
Duane

http://www.motorcycleseatsdirect.com/

Excellent post KP, thanks for sharing.
Hope other members see the value of your post.
Best,
DW

Gerard & Tom,
Perfect....many thanks for the help!!
Much appreciated!
Duane

Gerard,

If I wrote brush line, I wrote that in error, sorry for any confusion! (The gold tank in my photo 2 probably could be confused for brush lines).

What I was trying to express are two ideas:
     1) The stripes have paint on them and are not a decal or sticker (Looks like I need to do some research on Water Transfer processes). The center Gold portion of the stripe is a metallic based paint by appearance when viewed under magnification.
     2) Second, I have in my possession, what I believe are several tanks with original painted stripes that do not have clear transparent edge lines. A knife or razor appears to have been used in the process.to cut through masked areas of the stripe.the majority of the tanks I inspected have the water transferred (let's call them that) stripes, but several do not, those appear masked and painted over the base color.

I agree with KP, the stripes are consistently 46mm wide as he pointed out.

Best,
Duane

KP,
Very Interesting Topic!
I for one, DO believe the tank strips ARE painted on based on my evaluation of original paint wrinkle and non-wrinkle tanks.
Curiosity get the best of me, so I went out to the shop and started to examine several different tank stripes under magnification. Under 10x and 20x magnification, I could clearly see where the striping was masked and I found cut lines from a Knife or razor. The edges of the striping clearly had distinguishable places where the paint was not perfectly aligned. I say they are painted.
I don't believe for one second the tanks were clear coated. I've spend many hours polishing original paint tanks from Sandcast and early K0 CB750s and the paint color always comes off on the polishing cloth.
You can bring the color back out on the faded stripes to gain a lot of color from these faded surfaces. Candy Blue Green tanks are preferred, as the Candy Ruby Red has a gold base coat that becomes very apparent when the sun fades out the red pigment.
I have one tank that clearly shows brush lines on the stripes.
Perhaps the process changed as production numbers increased, but early tank striping through early 1970 models sure seem to be painted beyond a doubt when viewed under magnification. That is quite an amazing feat of craftsmanship, if this was the truly the correct factory process.
There could have been multiple suppliers during the production runs and maybe different processes were used, but I firmly believe a strong case can be made for painted stripes on early wrinkle tanks.
Best,
DW