Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Street 675 and Yam 350

So, Libby was complaining about manouvering her bike so in order to encourage her to ride I bought a lust engineering lowering kit, which was duly installed and the fork tubes were raised through the yokes approximately 14mms, of course this makes the side stand difficult to use, so I made up some spacers for the aide stand bracket and purchased some longer bolts to fix the stand. I took it out for a ride and was plaisantly suprised that I didn't really notice any difference! I fell off the 350 at Ales race track trying to follow a hopped up scooter through a slow bend! Anyway it was the last session so the bike was packed up in the van, and Up havw only just looked at the damage. The left footrest took the brunt, it is fixed on with a huge bolt going through a hole in the footrest holder, which had broken, the gear lever had bent and that was about it. so I used a footrest holder that had been cut from an ally plate about 4 mm plate. I drilled holes for the footrest and gear lever and Bob's yer uncle. I also changed rhe front wheel on the bike to use a new tyre which I had fitted to another wheel. The 350 has different disk bolts each side, on one side are 4.8 mm star headed bolts and on the other (Left side) there are 5.0 mm allen head disk bolts, and if you inverse them they rub on the fork leg on the right! So after a fare bit ofaffinf about I got it on and setup correctly. as per below photo.

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