Hahaha. I have a more shameful story than that. About 12 years ago, fired up on red wine, I decided now was the time to pull apart an espresso machine to refurbish and re build. As it was the spur of the moment, and I didn’t have a shed or even labeling materials , I thought that serviettes cut into strips and stuck on to things with electrical tape and written on in black marker pen was the way to go..... I’m not sure what was in the wine to make me think that this was an awesome idea. As the story goes I went sailing for 3 months shortly after my grand disassembly, and came back to some far more than dodgy workmanship and labelling hilariously the permanent marker on the serviette blotted out so you could not even read what I had written in my tipsy madness .... since that day I have been somewhat more organised.Glad to see you took all the backing off the Dymo labels, others haven’t in the past, and went back to the bike the next day, to find the bike surrounded by confetti .... it was one of the funniest forum posts ever. Hey Yogi?
You might need a translator, Paul
for me I thought it was just not a nice option. I like the curve up to the engine mount, it follows the curve of the engine , and is less intrusive. I think the way I did it ties in nicely and keeps the main bracket against the frame web.In any case it was it was me designing what I thought fit best... there are many ways to skin a cat, and my bracket is a bit extravagant, and so am I so it fits, your idea is very cool toommhh - why didn't you use the footrest-holder-hole and made the distance-piece more on the rear of the bracket to get it alligned with the engine mounting screw? would be way less obvious and as you don't need the footrest holder anyway, that would be my prefered method... Sure the longer arm of your design takes more forces, but even the two screws relatively close to each other would be absolutely sufficient to take the load when tapping on the brake pedal from my point of view.
Just an idea...
Oh it cant jump, there is a recess in the bracket thats not easy to see , that sits over the bushing in the swing arm pivot web , so when the swing arm nut is tightened down, part acts as a washer to the flanges locking swing arm nut, and the other part compresses against the web.then on to the engine mount there is a step down so it is flush with the mount and that acts as the washer for the nut there. There is no way this will jump, and the arch in the arm that goes up to the engine mount is designed arched so its stronger, should there be any moment in the bracket when the brake is applied or if for some reason the swing arm pivot bolt turns.
