sykospain
Registered user
Last year sometime, or maybe during 2016, somebody posted on one of the Boxer forums that swapping out the crunched-knee Rockster footpegs for a more comfortable ride with GS footpegs fitted was a straightforward procedure.
Er, no...
Whilst on Christmas hols here in the unceasingly rainy n.w of the UK, I had to spend a whole day yesterday during the brief hours of daylight at this time of year, in a dimly-lit motor engineer's workshop complete with lathe, welder, reamer, etc., and some experienced mechanicking help, before the swap-over could be successfully achieved.
Revised high and low pressure hydraulic lines were needed, a new location on the gearshift pedal to line up with the shifter splined mechanism had to be found, and several other hackings were required, like for instance a newly-fabricated longer piston rod for the brake cylinder..
Trouble was, once started, we had to complete the job...
The moral of the story - don't effing-well bother ! Put up with the achey-breaky knees.
AL in s.e. Spain
Er, no...
Whilst on Christmas hols here in the unceasingly rainy n.w of the UK, I had to spend a whole day yesterday during the brief hours of daylight at this time of year, in a dimly-lit motor engineer's workshop complete with lathe, welder, reamer, etc., and some experienced mechanicking help, before the swap-over could be successfully achieved.
Revised high and low pressure hydraulic lines were needed, a new location on the gearshift pedal to line up with the shifter splined mechanism had to be found, and several other hackings were required, like for instance a newly-fabricated longer piston rod for the brake cylinder..
Trouble was, once started, we had to complete the job...
The moral of the story - don't effing-well bother ! Put up with the achey-breaky knees.
AL in s.e. Spain