Shaved Legs| Shaving Motorcycle Fork Legs

Customizing bikes these days usually entails taking more off the bike than you started with. Cleaning up all of the OEM chingaderas such as turn signals, bulky saddles and reflectors can have a favorable effect on an otherwise stock bike. Delving further into custom territory takes a bit of skill and a few power and hand tools. When we decided that the front fender had to go on our 2005 Softail, we also decided that we needed to remove any evidence that there was ever a fender there in the first place. That meant the cast-in fender mounts on the fork legs had to go. This project took less time than watching a few NFL games on a Sunday and required taking the forks apart, cutting the mounts with a band saw, sculpting them with a die grinder, and chucking the lowers up in a lathe to get them super smooth. If you don't have access to a lathe a hand file can be used, but make sure you have a good amount of time and patience. When we finished shaving the legs we used some emery cloth to get them ready for paint.

The end result is a truly custom look with very little out-of-pocket expense.