Plastic aint fantastic

Still in pain from digesting the Christmas pudding I found time was there to make the final mechanical repair to my ol panheads chassis, replacing parts of its front mudguard wich in its previous life had been repaired by plastic padding. Wich is a brilliant method of hiding rust but in my point of view not an repair.

One could easily ask, why attacking the only part looking decent on your bike with a grinder?

Suspicion. If something looks to good be true, then it for sure is false. We all know Harley mudguards rust apart in the area where it attach to the fork, this where its double plates.