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Technically Speaking => General Technical discussion => Topic started by: spikeshq on Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 05:38 AM
WORD OF ADVISE (IF YOU HAVNT CHECKED PLEASS DO SO )
At the start of the yesr i purchased a spare swing arm to have a lower brace fitted , to find out the pivot tube had a crack in it . So i thought no prob i will buy a second , i asked the seller are there any cracks in pivot tube , they replied no i recieved swing arm to find another crack , i recently found out that due to the low down torque on a 14 this is a common fault .so please if you havnt ckecked please do so i will enclose pics
You do need to post in every thread
But your warning was well worth noting .
Do you know what ages the swingarms are or rough idea of mileages on them as that would be very useful info too.
:cheers:
Been there and got the T shirt.
I was thinking our crap roads with viscious pot holes dont help !
Yeah you got yhat right .due to health issues i now gotta trike it anyhow :whatever:
Sorry Seth they were k2 not sure on milage
That's quite worrying.
Mine was ok the last time I looked at it about 18 months ago when I rebuilt the bike.
Chances are it may still be ok , but if you got access to a ramp i would just take a quick look for piece of mind jope its ok . Just wanted to raise the awarness incase people didnt know
Quote from: spikeshq on Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 06:59 PM
Chances are it may still be ok , but if you got access to a ramp i would just take a quick look for piece of mind jope its ok . Just wanted to raise the awarness incase people didnt know
That's a very fair point spikeshq and good advice :onya: