Spotless
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Better safe than sorry
Hiya Shapeshifter....,
From new....that's 4 years ago now......I didn't like the thought of any of those bolts coming loose......I can fall off easy enough through my own stupidity, I didn't want any help from the back wheel falling off!.......at least with a twin sided swinging arm you can feel ''strange'' handling behaviour if the back wheel is loose prior to something castastrophic happening.....with a single sider I thought prevention was a wise move on my part.
....so it was a 5 minute job, one bolt off at a time, drill through, back on and when all done some of that really useful steel wire that is plastic coated and sold for tying up your plants and stuff in the garden....job done.
I read in a couple of MCN's left here by guests last year about 2 incidences of BM's spitting off their back wheels because the bolts had been left loose/had come undone following servicing work by 'professional' mechanics!.........
......perhaps the factory ought to start lock wiring them on as standard?....at least if it was a standard fitment you can easily see if there is lock wire on the bolts post service/tyre fitment etc etc........at the worse, even if the bolts loosen they cannot now fully loosen and fall out.
Safe riding
Shitman
Hiya Shapeshifter....,
From new....that's 4 years ago now......I didn't like the thought of any of those bolts coming loose......I can fall off easy enough through my own stupidity, I didn't want any help from the back wheel falling off!.......at least with a twin sided swinging arm you can feel ''strange'' handling behaviour if the back wheel is loose prior to something castastrophic happening.....with a single sider I thought prevention was a wise move on my part.
....so it was a 5 minute job, one bolt off at a time, drill through, back on and when all done some of that really useful steel wire that is plastic coated and sold for tying up your plants and stuff in the garden....job done.
I read in a couple of MCN's left here by guests last year about 2 incidences of BM's spitting off their back wheels because the bolts had been left loose/had come undone following servicing work by 'professional' mechanics!.........
......perhaps the factory ought to start lock wiring them on as standard?....at least if it was a standard fitment you can easily see if there is lock wire on the bolts post service/tyre fitment etc etc........at the worse, even if the bolts loosen they cannot now fully loosen and fall out.
Safe riding
Shitman
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