AgentX
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So...this is kind of embarrassingly crude...but it's what $60, your own chunk of 3/8" 6061 alloy, and about 8 hours in an African machine shop will get you. I'll spare you the details, although I did get a good shop of a couple of roosters strolling through while we worked. Turns out Joonyah is no longer the only cock in the machine shop...
Despite the ugly, when running the bike without the master cylinder hooked up, I've got no interference from any bolts rubbing under acceleration, deceleration, front braking, or turning, and it seems to stay solidly in place without bounce or slap or anything. So next weekend I'll try to get it to function as a brake. (I do have a high misalignment spacer for the front heim joint which is kind of bodged down there in the pic.)
Any advice on where I can relieve material from or speedhole that big honkin' bracket? Or just cut it along the obvious line where the plate is extraneous?
And if this thing is gonna kill me, please feel free to tell me so. Kind of a first here for me.
Despite the ugly, when running the bike without the master cylinder hooked up, I've got no interference from any bolts rubbing under acceleration, deceleration, front braking, or turning, and it seems to stay solidly in place without bounce or slap or anything. So next weekend I'll try to get it to function as a brake. (I do have a high misalignment spacer for the front heim joint which is kind of bodged down there in the pic.)
Any advice on where I can relieve material from or speedhole that big honkin' bracket? Or just cut it along the obvious line where the plate is extraneous?
And if this thing is gonna kill me, please feel free to tell me so. Kind of a first here for me.