Baghira newbie...

[homebrew123]

This what it looks like together.

[Malcvtr]

Hi, if you drop the back end by 3" then do the same with the forks, but the adjuster knobs will hit the handlebars, so fit a pair of cheap £9.99 handlebar risers and it also gives a better ridng position at the same time. The standard links are 118mm between holes centres, and the ones that I made were to the standard size because the bike had been lowered and I wanted it back to original height. But the ones that were fitted were 130mm and I also have a set of 125mm and they do drop the bike a decent amount. I think the longest that I have seen for sale have been 135mm between centres from a place in Germany. And I would recommend to use 30mm wide stainless strip, either 3mm or 4mm thick and I just rounded the ends. If you want to be fancy you could shape into dog bone shape, but I figured they would be stronger with more metal, and use some new cobalt drills or similar and go up in sizes and keep the tip cool and the speed of the drill slow, or the stainless will work harden and you will overheat the cutting edge.
When I said about the tank studs to hold the seat, they are 20mm long in total, with only 10mm sticking out from the tank and that's why they use a short sleeve nut, to reach through the seat hole onto the stud. If you have any old furniture fixings with m6 sleeve nuts then they would be perfect, failing that they are very cheap off ebay, and then have a look at the recessed or countersunk large OD m8 aluminium washers that are on ebay as well.

Thanks very much once again, Jon. Great info on the dog bones. I measured the ones on the bike and they’re 6mm thick! So I’ll take your advice and get some 30mm wide stainless strip and go for 4mm thick. Thanks also for the tip about drilling the stainless slowly - another thing I wouldn’t have thought of.

The cut-down bolts the previous guy used for studs are 8mm diameter, much longer than 20mm and epoxied in. I fear trying to remove them will end up with me needing a new tank I’ll cut down the home-made studs and look for some M8 dome head nuts and use large OD M8 washers. I wish I could use your solution because it looks great.

[Malcvtr]

Hmmm. These look like they’d do the job and look good with your countersunk M8 washer solution:

https://www.accu.co.uk/en/knurled-count ... gI1Z_D_BwE

[Malcvtr]

Forget that Didn’t realise what a rivet nut was

[homebrew123]

I think you may be able to get some m8 furniture sleeve nuts, but they will have a larger head, so you will need the next size aluminium washers if you can find some on ebay.

[Malcvtr]

Just ordered these off eBay - item number 191771467782 Worth a try? And the M8 version of these - item number 282768693899. I know I’ll have to drill the washers, but might work OK...

[Malcvtr]

Decals applied. Hooray! First thing changed

[homebrew123]

They may look better than mine, and stainless as well, I may be swapping to your type lol let me know how they fit together.

[Malcvtr]

Will do mate

[Malcvtr]

eBay item 131227071804

Jon, I don’t know if these would be of any use to you, but I ordered them before I thought about it They’ve arrived today and they’re going to be no use at all to me now that I’m going the alternative seat-fixing route. You’re welcome to them FOC. If you want them, PM me your address and I’ll send them to you.

[homebrew123]

That is very good of you, yes they would come in very handy thank you so much. I will PM you my address.

[homebrew123]

Let me know if you have received the PM with my address please.
Thanks Jon.

[Malcvtr]

You’re very welcome mate. You’ve been incredibly helpful to me. I’ll get them in the post tomorrow

[Malcvtr]

Yep. Address received

[homebrew123]

Sorry forgot to give you my name, it's Jon Baldwin, it will still get to me if you just put the address, I have regularly forgot to include my name with address details and never had a problem lol
Thank you.
Jon.