Hi folks,
Heres my attempt at the rear brake mod, its similar to one already mentioned.
The cable operated job, is replaced by a rod attached to the rear hub brake arm, the rod runs from the brake arm through the small space between the oil tank and the oil feed pipe where its then attached to a modified lever
the modified lever is bolted to the splines on the crossover shaft as normal
To make the new lever mod i at first thought of using an old gearchange lever as it was a good fit on the crossover shaft splines i was going to cut the lever off near its base and weld a fabricated lever to it
However i found a brake lever in my bits and pieces that looked the right length and fitted the splines like a glove.
My friend Tom welded a bracket to a piece of hollow tubing, the bracket had one hole in it to attach the brake rod and another hole to bolt the assembley together
This would allow me to alter the angle of the rod pull and to shorten the tube length without having to cut and reweld each time. When i was happy with the pull angle and the tubing length tom welded the lot together.This mod is working very well and has totally transformed my rear brake
