After some thought, I came up with an idea to locate the bracket in the correct 3 dimensional space with regard to 3 points on the frame.
All I need is some scraps of steel sheet, some tie rods of some description, an old side-stand, and a welder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A bit of preparation, before I approach the 250 for fitting it all together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I now have three lengths of terminated 8mm threaded bar, and an old side-stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The welding doesn’t have to be perfect, (or even good \ud83d\ude42 ), which is good, because the quality of the steel in the rods, and the coating, made the welding quite difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sacrificial side-stand needed to be bolted to the frame, with spring, such that it is held properly in place, in a repeatable way. Let’s see what it looks like on the 350 frame, with the YPVS bracket offered up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interestingly, the bracket does not align perfectly with the sleeve on the bottom frame rail. I wonder whether these are reliably in the same place on every frame? I cut the side-stand bracket off my RD350LC. It had been rewelded wrong. I have either a new (YPVS) bracket…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alphabeta.me.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I know where 2 of the tie bars will be mounted, requiring a 6mm and a 10mm hole to be drilled, but there is no obvious third mounting point, so I decided to use a hook around the frame, repurposing an old bungee end.
For the tie rods, I ended up with some lengths of 8mm threaded rod, that being around a quarter of the price of 8mm bar, or for that matter, anything else I could source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lets offer them up to the 250 and see if the idea will work.
I need to remove the original side-stand, (because I don’t want to weld anything to that!), and it turned out, that for clearance, I needed to remove the left hand engine cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Once the welding was completed, I could remove the side-stand bolt, and gently tap the top of the side-stand, sideways, until it disengaged with the bracket.
The resulting assembly is sturdy enough to do this one job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I didn’t think to measure when I had the tape-measure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"