yes i do beat the living crap out of it. it's a 2003. i've cut the front fenders twice... i originally just cut the big mud flap things off. my fenders were like tistheman's cut like that. but then i was riding one day, with all black down, and i look down at my fender when we stopped to talk and take a rest for a few minutes..and it was cracked halfway thru the whole fender so i had to cut them to the way they are now...now i broke the back ones ...haha weak fenders.