As you can see its pretty well fubarred!! As far as I could tell it was down to the fixing bolt coming out of the rear brake stay arm. So the rest of the damage had been done as a result of the rear hub trying to spin around.
So to get the bike home again I just took the rear brake pedal off it completely. This made for one tricky mornings work a-thon!!
Even so I got the bike home that evening (Thursday) and had one night to get it back on the road. Bring it on! I thought... Hmmm, took quite a while in the end!
Stripped the rear brake down into its basic parts and decided that I needed to remake the linkage and the brake lever. So I stripped down the rear linkage rod and made a new threaded bung for some M6 thread to sit in...
That was before. After I had a new threaded and machined bung for both the 6mm bar and M6 bar to sit in. Next up was the brake lever arm. It was chewed at the ends but I figured that I could cope with it for now.
So as the original one was shaped like a banana I decided to remake it out of 15mm bar.
Tacked;
Welded;
So now the rear brake assembly could be rebuilt, with new fixing, washers, etc, and a couple of new parts.
Eeek!! What a little bugger! When you looked closely at the broken joint you could see that there was less room than originally thought. But as it was late on Thursday, I just decided to bodge it!
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