left hand, [gear change] hanger, chain drilled to [well-rough], shape, note bush at bottom to allow for actuating arm, copied directly from my ducati, sue me.

after yesterdays cock up making two rearset mountings the same i got back in the shed and got stuck in, finished the right hand mounting and roughed out the gear change bracket complete with boss for the gearchange pivot, this is five hours worth of work, no wonder i'm struggling to get it done with everyday, normal life getting in the way, even when i go to bed i'm trying to find solutions, at least i've got the football tomorrow so i can forget about motorcycles.

the finished right hand, [rear brake lever], rearset hanger, when i say finished i mean to say that i still have to mill down, make a bush and fit the modified cagiva mito brake lever, make the mountings for the master cylinder and reservoir, make a footpeg, [or four, it's a racer, i'm going to crash and break them and need spares], so, yeah, it's not finished, had an hour working out the seat to footpeg height, measured the ducati, measured the sporty and tried to get the peg as high as possible for gound clearance but still be able to operate it with reasonable comfort.

easter sunday is the day when we celebrate jesus rising from the dead, jesus is the son of god and gave his life to die for our sins, happy easter everybody, let's have a paaaarttty!

bratstyle japanese sr500, stunning, set me off now, as if i don't have enough grief with the fucking mz without thinking about another project already..............

still can't afford my tyres, it's the weekend, suppose we ought to get the rearsets sorted then, bit of stock out of the stash and measure up, this is the top mounting bracket half way through machining, the two 'forks' in the centre are to fit around the frame section to stop the rearsets 'yawning' when my weights on them, the left side is finished, just needs cleaning up, right side still to be milled.

dangerous left at 5pm leaving me to finish milling the mounting to shape, i really didn't want to cock this up, for one, it's a lot of hours work and also it's the bank holiday weekend and the scrappies are shut and i haven't got another piece of stock for the job, i was taking a 'thou off at a time at the end just to be safe.

the 'top' mounting bracket bolted to the frame, the bracket is a nice tight fit around the frame and is secured with a 6mm countersunk set screw, i drilled and tapped both ends 8mm to mount the rearset plates off, this was easier said than done, the brackets about 300mm long and i had to use the vice off my pillar drill and drop the bed of the miller down as far as it would go to give enough room to drill it, then i had to unbolt the head of the miller and slide it forward to centre the bit, pain in the arse.

drilled the swingarm spinde and tapped it out 8mm for the bottom rearset mounting then set about making a cardboard template to get the basic shape and trace it onto the stock ready to cut out.

10mm cast aluminium plate, i'm using cast so it snaps off when i fall off rather than dural which is more malleable and may bend the frame rather than snapping on impact, the mountings for the master cylinder and reservoir will be bolt on items, [hard to explain, i will post photo's when done], the peg's are represented by the socket head bolt, i got my paddock stand roughly in position to represent where my feet would fall and made the bracket to suit, chain drilled the stock to rough shape and onto the miller to clean it up, we have to make two of these for when i crash so we can replace them, good job really because i made two the same and then realised that i need to leave some stock on the bottom run on the gear change side so we can modify the throw on the gear lever to give a more positive change, mz racers wreck loads of gearboxes because of the length of the actuating arm, studying the ducati again i noticed how they got over the problem of having the long actuating arm and hopefully i can preserve the 'box from damage due to sloppy changes.

'meeting joe strummer', derby assembly rooms, april, 13th and 14th, i'll be there, it's easy to dismiss the clash as being 'journo-manufactured-punk- for-the-masses', if you think that then you weren't down the front, covered in gob at the kings hall derby during the 'give 'em enough rope tour', i was, the clash were always a peoples band, even after they split i went to see mick jones's big audio dynamite at the town and country club in north london, midweek gig, up early, work, down to laahndahn', gig, back very early hours of the morning, bed for two minutes and work, shift done, back on the train to see jesus and mary chain at leicester de-montford hall, back on the train, early hours, can't afford a taxi, walk home, bed for four minutes, get up go to work, 'stay free'.