Do I need the fork bracket that says "Yamaha"

[njcafe84]

I'm going to be pulling off my forks to put on some gaitors and I was wondering if I need to keep that piece of metal that's like a bracket. It says Yamaha on it and its just below the lower triple tree.

Will affect the bike if I take it off? Or is the thing useless?

 

[HoughMade]

Just the sheetmetal bracket? Nope- don't need it.

 

[njcafe84]

The piece of sheet metal that the Yamaha logo is attached to?

 

[1lowdiesel]

Yea don't remove that!! Your forks will fall off the first bump you hit!



























Haha I kid I kid.

 

[xschris]

Its to hold the headlight ears in place. If you use the stock headlight mounting tabs you will need this. Other wise no you can remove it and do something like this.

 

[chkm8]

Sorry to hijack, xschris, is that a stock size headlight or smaller?

 

[xschris]

Its a stock 1980

 

[chkm8]

Was it originally black?

 

[xschris]

Nope came chrome all metal.

 

[chkm8]

Not fair. Is it the same 7 incher? Love the look of the chrome.

 

[xschris]

Yep, 1980 xs400sg is the model

 

[chkm8]

Today I learned that Yamaha had a really cool looking chrome headlight that they chose to put on XS400 model years just before mine and then went with a very uncool looking black headlight for the '81. Thanks Yamaha!

 

[1lowdiesel]

ha mine was chrome on my 81 and i painted over it.

 

[chkm8]

wtf? sigh

 

[drewpy]

I'm a big Aha fan and ground out the letters Yam so it reads "aha"






not

 

[xschris]

I have seen a lot of people taking off all the yamaha logos off there bikes to make them look like another brand Very lame! I am proud to drive my yamaha

 

[drewpy]

I have seen a lot of people taking off all the yamaha logos off there bikes to make them look like another brand Very lame! I am proud to drive my yamaha

I did that with the tracker and it kills the punters trying to work out what the bike is.

most say its a Hon(cough!)

 

[HoughMade]

I'm a big Aha fan and ground out the letters Yam so it reads "aha"

not

Take on me...take me on.

 

[drewpy]

Take on me...take me on.

talking away.....

 

[armyofda12mnkeys]

Hey XSChris, just curious if you had that pic still of that setup you mentioned in this post above: "Its to hold the headlight ears in place. If you use the stock headlight mounting tabs you will need this. Other wise no you can remove it and do something like this."...

That pic is not showing up cause I think its an old/dead link, Wasn't sure if you still had the pic on ya and can update the post to include pic. Wondering what it would look like with that badge removed.