Oil Deflector for UFM

[davidd]

Are your brake cam shafts drilled, too? They look it.

Good eye. Yes they are drilled to the Flash/Lihgtning pattern. Rear stand lugs removed and the diagonal brace on the RFM is brazed, obviating the need for the bolt.

David

 

[Hugo Myatt]

I rember seeing an Outfit years ago, He used a strip of alloy as a torque arm, But when he stopped on a hill, the alloy bent and I think it locked the rear brakes on, Cheers Bill.

Bill,
Could that have been John Vane's outfit? When I later acquired his Rapide, by then solo, it was fitted with alloy torque arms. They were seriously bent and were the first items I replaced.
Hugo

 

[Bill Thomas]

Hello Hugo, I don't think so,The one I saw was when I worked for Conways in the 1960s, I think a few people made that mistake !! Cheers Bill.

 

[davidd]

An aluminum tube might work. The light torque arms can go wrong when backing the bike up, such as unloading.

The weak point on the Flashes and Lightnings was the rear brake plate. The torque arms pulled a triangular chunk around the bolt out of both of my electron plates. That is why I went to aluminum plates. When I raced the Flash I used the original front plates, but I thought better of it when I built the replacement racer.

David

 

[vibrac]

Go a bit wider on the strip

 

[davidd]

Hi there David, interesting mod...what number is the cutaway on this slide.....??...

I did not do the math, but it is .93" overall with the slot being .63" tall and the tube is 1.25" diameter.

David

 

[davidd]

hello David,
I stopped smoking about 6 months ago and put on about 12 kilos since then, and I wasn't a flimsy guy in the first place ( more the red baron type of guy -no pun intended Andrew). so I think it is far cheaper and easier if I go on a diet instead of trying to make an alloy steering head or similar things.
thats why I went for a 600 cc topend kit in the first place.

cheers Bernd

Bernd,

Quiting smoking was a good step, but I hope you have success with the weight. Once after the Saturday races at Gingerman, Carlton and I went to a bar-b-que put on by another racer. I was abstaining, but just after Carleton finished his first burger he asked the question: should I have another? I said "Sure" and on his way to the grill he realized what I was promoting. It did not work. We placed first and second in both races with Carleton taking the wins.

David