VFR or VTR Front Fender?

I searched, but either I am looking in the wrong spot or can't figure out the right words to use in the search engine.

My GF bought a yellow 2000 VFR with Superhawk forks already installed. The current front fender is a 2000 VFR fender, but it has a couple of issues in the paint department. Also, the mounting holes don't exactly line up with the VTR fork legs so the previous owner made some little brackets to adapt it.

Would a 1999 (also yellow) VTR fender bolt right up or is there a difference in the fork spacing? As far as I know, the triple trees are VFR, but I don't know if they are the same dimensionally as the VTR triple trees. Would it look funny as far as the "lines" of the bike?

The VTR fender would probably be your best bet, you might hade to use some washers or be otherwise creative if the fork spacing is different.

The VTR fork spacing is not as wide as the 5th forks, so the fender wont fit up to fork tubes and mounting holes wont line up.  I ran into this when I used VTR lowers on my 5th gen upper tubes. So what does an engineer idiot do? Figure out a conversion brackets so the 5th gen stock fender bolts up. I ended up doing the extreme step of taking VTR lowers and  the VFR lowers to a CMM house, getting all dimensions digitized and doing a design. Then over to the machine shop and they knocked out some pretty impressive brackets. Jeez, I must have been nutz, I got about 300 bucks in my fender brackets.
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[image: View Post]mello dude, on 09 March 2012 - 06:44 PM, said:

The VTR fork spacing is not as wide as the 5th forks, so the fender wont fit up to fork tubes and mounting holes wont line up.
Thanks, that is what I needed to know. I wasn't sure about the width difference between the 2 and where the difference would come from (triple trees?)

[image: View Post]wera803, on 12 March 2012 - 07:08 AM, said:

[image: View Post]mello dude, on 09 March 2012 - 06:44 PM, said:

The VTR fork spacing is not as wide as the 5th forks, so the fender wont fit up to fork tubes and mounting holes wont line up.
Thanks, that is what I needed to know. I wasn't sure about the width difference between the 2 and where the difference would come from (triple trees?)

Yes the difference is that the triple spacing is narrower on the VTR - I believe its the same as a 4th gen. (I thought I just saw a thread saying the 4th and VTR are the same.)

[image: View Post]mello dude, on 12 March 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

Yes the difference is that the triple spacing is narrower on the VTR - I believe its the same as a 4th gen. (I thought I just saw a thread saying the 4th and VTR are the same.)
Yep, just put the VTR forks, brakes, and fender on the kids 4th gen today.