At last I've gone and bought something to customise my bike and it fitted right off. There was no bashing, bending, drilling or general botching needed at all to fit my new rack to the fender. It went on straight off and looks like the dog's proverbials!
It's a crossbones rack from Motherwell products. The gloss black it's finished in isn't so glossy after all. In fact it fits right in with the matt black of my fender.
Both the Motherwell site and V-twin Mania whom I bought it from had stated that it would fit an '09 up Crossbones or a Fatboy '06 up with a solo seat, so I was a bit worried when I ordered it that it wouldn't fit. I was pretty sure that the fender on the night train was the same as the crossbones but with HD you can never take these things for granted. The idea of interchangeable parts seems to be an anathema to the MoCo.
But when I offered it up it went together perfectly.
Wish I could say the same of the brawler pad, which I'm hoping will be quickly interchangeable with the rack when I want to take someone pillion. It looks like that will need some tweaking.
More on that soon (with some pics).
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