Help me be straight again

R1stu · Shrek! Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Karma :

Has you may know I recently crashed my bike. I have however, got the girl running. What I found however, was after stripping it down and fixing it, I couldn’t get the dam lever straight (See picture)

What I have tried to do is, put the foot peddle in the oven for a while and try to bend it into shape. Looking at the picture it seems that the lever is straight and that the bracket where the foot beg goes is bent. Do any of you have any suggestions on how to get from hitting the rear set?

Karma

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TGE125NSR · Banned Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Karma :

Looking at that, the pedal arm looks fine, the bracket is bent id say.

Id get a acetalyne torch on it and then you can bend it back pretty easy.

It would be easier though to pick a second hand bracket up.

Cool

R1stu · Shrek! Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Karma :

if i can fix it for free then i will
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TGE125NSR · Banned Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Karma :

Thats my boy.

i bodge almost anything i can. Why buy new fairings when you can glue, fibreglass and fill and paint a damaged 100 times over?

I have a 100 uses for most things! Cool

R1stu · Shrek! Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Karma :

pitty I cant use the Gaffa Tape on it though!! Twisted Evil

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bikerchic17 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Karma :

I was a bit worried about what you were going to say in this thread stu after only seeing the title!! Laughing

Syfoon · TRUCK!!! Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Karma :

Bloody stu and his gaffa tape!

You'd have fun with the cracks in my fairing. Razz

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one1895 · Posted: 02:37 - 21 Jul 2003 Post subject:

Hmmmm... blow torch it maybe and try to bend it back?? Confused

Cam.
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kev · I Hump Things Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Karma :

Blow torch is a good idea but being aluminium it will melt very easily. There is a very easy way round not melting it, all you have to do is get a bar of soap and coat the surface with it. Heat it gently and you will see the soap start to go black, it will do this about 5 degrees before the melting point of the aluminium so you can bend it back without damaging anything else.
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