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CHAPTER TWO - 12
Disaster!!
Disaster has struck
today, I was looking at the back section of the bike and thought that it
would make a nice picture to see the back half almost completed. So, I
placed the passenger saddle in place and stood back to admire the
result, and great, it looked good. OK, place the driver’s saddle in
place and then see what it looked like. Picked up saddle, went to
position it then suddenly realised that there was nothing to put it on.
The daft dick went and cut the driver’s seat support bracket out of the
frame!
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I just stood
there for at least 2 minutes trying to understand why the hell
had the seat mount been cut off, as you can see – its not there.
I didn’t know what to feel, I think it was between anger,
frustration, and my stupidity for not noticing it in the first
place. It’s not the sort of thing you look for on the frame, you
expect the bits to be there.
After an hour
or so kicking anything that came into range and several words to
suit (next door had to shut their door as they didn’t think I
used such language), I realised what has happened. |
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If you notice there
are two additional lugs on either side of the frame, set on the outside
of the mudguard support. They are not supposed to be there – what are
they for??
What I think has
happened is that the chap who started the rebuild in the first place
wanted to put a British seat in place of the Russian one, you know the
type, with two springs at the back of the seat, hence the two lugs. Daft
B - - - - - - -! ! !
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Looking at it
more closely, I can’t really understand what had happened, as
there is now another thing I have noticed. Remember me saying in
the section on spraying that I saw some rather big welds in the
frame? Well have a look at the picture where the white ring is
circled. That is one hell of a cut in the frame, I can’t figure
out if there was anything there that isn’t now?
This may also
explain why the battery support is almost touching the drive
coupling.
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I have thought about
what I can do and there are only a few ways I can correct the fault.
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Get the bracket
and weld it back on ("screw up" paintwork)
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Find a British
seat and fit that.
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Get the bracket
and engineer some clamps and clamp it in place.
So far I think I will
go with the 3rd option, as I would like to keep it as close to original
as possible. I don’t want to weld the bracket back on, this would cost
me lots of the hard cash spent in re-spraying.
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My thoughts
are to make four clamp-on brackets, weld one part of the clamp
to the bracket, and bolt it up. Sounds easy but I think it will
work; it only has to support my lightweight body??? |
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It may not look
brilliant, but when sprayed in blue it should look ok.
WE SHALL SEE in
Chapter Three! |
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