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To be fair to the original design, the objective was that the gear pedal would be in the same place relative to the footrest no matter where the footrest was positioned. Agreed, the one piece alloy gear pedal eliminates free play but are currently available alloy pedals up to the job? There seems to have been many failures mentioned on the forum.
For sure the early 'B' design was not up to the job so be thankful for what you have
As long as you don´t drop the bike on it len, it´s strong enough.
For all the technical superiority of a "D" (and there is a lot to mention by the way), the B part is very pretty!!
I only know of one C lever that has broken, when the bike fell over (the rear stand dug in on a campsite before the owner could deploy his bits of wood...). It was successfully welded.
Manx Nortons always had linkages. Mine did too. Not unattractive, but too many moving parts. Then I discovered that I could reverse the selector camplate and so use a one piece lever pointing backwards and still be "one up" and everything else "down". It was far, far better.
Manx Nortons always had linkages. Mine did too. Not unattractive, but too many moving parts. Then I discovered that I could reverse the selector camplate and so use a one piece lever pointing backwards and still be "one up" and everything else "down". It was far, far better.
That gear lever and linkage on ebay went for $500US
