While most of the ones I've seen online are like this below (original pic from here).
And period ads confirm this.
While the one currently on the bike works, I started looking for a correct one. First stop was ebay...well there was one alright but at USD150 plus another USD50 for shipping it was too much for me! I then put the word out that I was looking for one on facebook and one bloke responded that he had one. The price was right but the mounts looked to have been shortened a bit. It will be possible to repair but I decided to wait a bit.
Another guy had one for sale and the pictures looked promising, a few holes and dents but fixing that is wayyy easier than repairing cut-off mounts!
It was at this point that it struck me that the original mudguard had only one hole for the upper fork mount but on my bike there were two bosses on the fork for mounting the mudguard.. oh oh ..was the forks swapped out sometime in the past for something from a different model?
But the bolt-on points at the bottom are still there!
Picture of the two bolt fixing , the lower stay mounts are not used.
Anyway, the vendor for the fender (the silver one above) confirmed that it would fit. It seems that the earlier ones had one bolt boss and later ones two? Anyone can verify this? Or at least confirm that some YG-1 had two bolt bosses on the upper end?
Here's a picture of the two types.
Anyway the price was way better than a NOS ebay one and condition was better than the one with the shortened legs so I bought the fender. A bonus was the seller was local to me and we had a nice chat about bikes!. Its surprisingly solid, it needs a bit of welding and some paint and we're good.
One more thing off the to-do list!
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