@650Skull does it fit between the fender and lower leg or inboard of the fender tabs?
The guard is inside the brace. have to bend the guard a bit so it sits inside the brace.
Bit of history. Thee braces have been around for donkies. yea mikes, (Mike L copied the one from Minton but they wernt available from anywhere till he made them.
Hugh stole his design from Gordon Scott. Gorden started to make them,, (low ones that replaced the front guard) as an add on to his exhausts. Gordon got the design from an earlier one that was no longer in production, so started to make them as no one else was.
Hugh jumped on the band wagon and started to make them but instead of stating the truth he wrote a big speal how he spent months and lots of research, designing these new fork braces that no one else was making, specificly for the XS.
https://www.xs650.com/threads/hughs-handbuilt-fork-braces.28851/#post-293205
We looked around the forums, talked to some of our racing customers, and found a serious lack for a proper fork brace. So off to the shop we went, after about 7 different designs and tests , the final HHB Fork Brace was born out of steel, sweat and even a little blood (careful folks, those metal ‘burrs’ are sharper than you think! haha) Behold, the HHB Fork Brace! Made from 100% USA Made Steel,
gordonscott XS650exhaust.com
It will not fit, I should know, I've been building them for over 5yrs
Hugh, you could have saved yourself all that "research and devolopment" and just bought one of mine, I knew about the ill handling of the XS years ago
Even so I could not come up with anything original either, it's all been done