Jardine Fender Eliminator

[cal95050]

Just installed the Jardine Fender Eliminator on my 2010. Other users' pictures and opinions helped me a lot in deciding what to buy, or not buy, so I thought I would return the favor and share.

The install is very easy; took (maybe) an hour (I was in no hurry).

Take off plastic, unbolt fender, bolt on Jardine fender eliminator in place, and splice license plate lights (if you bought those too).

The look is clean, but not as clean as others, but then there was no cutting required, so if you want to put the original back in place there will be no issues with that.


The steel plate provided from Jardine is solid and heavy, not some cheap metal nor some cheap sheet metal (like some others I saw complaints about). It was $68. Good deal.



The only issue I have with the install is that if you also get the LED licence plate bolts/lights, the wires will be sticking out of the back of the plate and completely visible. Very ugly.





It would look like this: (with imaginary wires sticking out)



For California, the fender eliminator is legal (Veh. Code 27600 requiring fenders only applies to vehicles with "three or more wheels") but the lack of license plate lights are not legal.

In California, you must have license plate lights. White lights. They must light the license plate to be visible from 50 feet to the rear.

Cal Veh Code 24601 says "Either the taillamp or a separate lamp shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light the rear license plate during darkness and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. When the rear license plate is illuminated by a lamp other than a required taillamp, the two lamps shall be turned on or off only by the same control switch at all times."

I don't know what kind of LED light the Jardine lights are, but they suck, and no matter where you put them, they will not light the plate to be "clearly visible" from 50 feet. Jardine advertises that the lights are for "legal alumination." They are not, and I guess I should have known this, given that Jardine is too stupid to spell "illumination" correctly on their web site. My bad on that one. $25 wasted.

I need lights, so I did a modification and drilled holes on the sides of the rear lamp - 1. This hides the wires, and 2. This tries to comply with the law. It doesn't actually comply, but I don't drive a night very often. I will look around for a fix.



The other problem with the Jardine fender eliminator is that it takes off the reflector. You must have a reflector.

Veh. Code 24607 requires "Every vehicle subject to registration under this code shall at all times be equipped with red reflectors mounted on the rear as follows:"

But only subsection (a) applies to motorcycles, which only requires, "at least one reflector so maintained as to be plainly visible at night from all distances within 350 to 100 feet from the vehicle when directly in front of the lawful upper headlamp beams."

So, I bought a stick-on reflector, tried different positions, and measured off 350 feet to see if I could see my bike with the hi-beams on from my car. It works. More or less. I don't see a cop hassling me too much on that.



Ninja 250 Jardine Fender Eliminator
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeyoui...7625485979708/

[onizthegnome]

nice work! ive been trying to decide myself on which fender eliminator to get. this one seems very easy to install and i like having the option of being able to put the stock fender back on. i have a couple of these little red screw on reflectors that can be screwed onto the license plate which i got from the DMV. i wonder if those will suffice when a cop sees me.

[Alex]

Hi C!

The photo links in your post aren't working. You've linked to the page that that photos are on, but not to the actual URL of the image. Here's what flickr says about getting the actual html to embed photos elsewhere:

Where is the HTML code and photo file link?

The HTML code to embed a photo in a web page that you used to find on the All Sizes page is now only in "Share this." To get to it just go to the main photo page, click "Share this", and then "Get the HTML." We now also include BBCode! (standard message board code)

There are a few cases where the code may not be available: 1) If the photo is restricted. 2) If that person has turned off "Share this" or access to original files.

The direct link to a photo file is no longer shown on the page. Per the Flickr Community Guidelines "pages on other websites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr." Linking directly to the photo file doesn't do this.

If you get that BBcode, you can copy it directly into a post here without putting any additional IMG tags around it. It'll look like this:

[cal95050]

Thanks. Fixed that.

[cal95050]

I've been thinking either a strip of reflective material, which is allowed under the California Vehicle Code, or a license plate frame with LED lights on top and a reflector or reflective material on the bottom. Like these: http://www.customdynamics.com/illumi...se Plate Frame

[slolane]

Nice, looks good

[JMcDonald]

Nice, informative write-up!

[Alex]

/linked from the DIY sticky at the top of the tech forum.

[nattygirl]

For anyone looking for a Jardine Fender Eliminator, www.d2moto.com has them for $64.04, but for cyber monday, if you use code BF40, you get 40% off any item, so it comes out to $38.44. With Tax and Shipping, it's $48.80. That's an excellent price for this.

[nattygirl]

Also Cal, for my husbands bike, we used an led strip for his license plate light. Just stick it on directly under the bike. We used this one.

http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/D...74230-1-3.html

For your application though, you might want to use this type that. you can stick it to your fender eliminator and it will direct the light downwards towards your license plate.

http://www.oznium.com/side-emitting-led-strip

I don't have any pics of it, but if you like, I can take some tonight so you can see how it looks.


Also, for the reflector issue, you can use the reflector license plate bolts. That's what I have on mine.

Cool, I just ordered one. Thanks Cal95050 for making this post, bringing the Jardine Fender Eliminator to my attention and thanks to nattygirl for posting the coupon code for d2moto.com so that I could get this at a nice price

[e90]

Sorry to revive a long dead thread but just wanted to point out that the pictures are not displaying.

Also, do you have to remove any of the bodywork/farings to install the Jardine kit or do you just have to unbolt the fender via the 4 screws?

Thanks!

[Alex]

The pictures should still be available if you view the PDF attachment in the first post.

[e90]

What is the process to remove the rear plastic beside the rear seat?

[dooby]

I found this thread (near the bottom) useful when doing work in that area:

www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9933

HTH, Pete

[Old Guy on a '08]

I really like this license plate frame but it's a little on the pricy side at $130.

IMG_4814.jpg

customdynamics.com licence plates


I'm from the old school - "more illumination the better" (Within certain limits). Turn and stop idicators seem to be covered really well in the Aftermarket but I think the Ninjette could use more "running lights". Dual intensity LED on this plate frame and also on the Proton Flush Mount Turn Signals are what I'm talking about (I haven't gotten around to hooking up the running light portion of my Protons yet).

Does anybody make dual intensity LED Strips that do this that aren't in the NFL/Hollywood salary range?

[e90]

Originally Posted by dooby

I found this thread (near the bottom) useful when doing work in that area:

www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9933

HTH, Pete

Thanks for this. The Jardine is on and I learned a lot. Just have to get my ass off the couch and splice up the turn signal wires.

Cheers