{"id":80765,"date":"2008-12-16T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80765"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:11","slug":"rear-carbon-fender-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081216\/decoboco-cars\/sportster-d\/rear-carbon-fender-wrap","title":{"rendered":"Rear carbon fender wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57720977_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57720977_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57720977_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> I went ahead and swapped the rear to a carbon fender.<br \/>\nI mean, it&#8217;s just stock steel, right?<br \/>\nI thought this would lighten things up quite a bit, but\u2026<br \/>\nStock: about 2.5 kilograms<br \/>\nWet carbon rear fender: about 1.4 kilograms<br \/>\nHmm, that&#8217;s kind of underwhelming! Seriously.<br \/>\nThis one for this model year didn&#8217;t have the lamp hole drilled out, and even if I drilled it, I couldn&#8217;t secure the lamp, so I had to fabricate a bracket.<br \/>\nFinally got it done\u2026<br \/>\nWell, whatever.<br \/>\nNow the front and rear are both carbon.<br \/>\nIn the end, I decided to go with a chrome tank for this one too.<br \/>\nWhat, again?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just a temporary setup for now.<br \/>\nGrin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I went ahead and swapped the rear to a carbon fender. I mean, it&#8217;s just stock steel, right? I thought this would lighten things up quite a bit, but\u2026 Stock: about 2.5 kilograms Wet carbon rear fender: about 1.4 kilograms Hmm, that&#8217;s kind of underwhelming! Seriously. This one for this model year didn&#8217;t have the lamp hole drilled out, and even if I drilled it, I couldn&#8217;t secure the lamp, so I had to fabricate a bracket. Finally got it done\u2026 Well, whatever. Now the front and rear are both carbon. In the end, I decided to go with a chrome tank for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-80765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sportster-d","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}