> Graham Motzing wrote:
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> Finally got some moped projects out of the way and got the sled in the
> shop on Sat. It was a balmy 20 deg, good thing since Sunday dropped down
> below zero again.
>
> I gotta swap the handlebars for better ones, add some foam to the seat
> and recover it, fix the exhaust mounting, and I wanted to get ski
> spreaders, new hardware, and wear rod in, but I don't think I'll have
> time, so I'll just get the wear rods done and do a whole steering
> rebuild next year.
>
> The bars are/were awful. They had the craziest bend and they were so low
> and narrow they hit your knees all the time. It looked like you could
> remove this weird clamp thing, but it was actually welded on. I think
> this was some idiot engineer's idea that didn't work so they just welded
> it on anyway. It's Terrible, you can't even get the steering stem out or
> tighten up the shaft end play which is really sloppy. Totally dumb.
>
> I paused for a half a second then got out the angle grinder... There
> goes the collector value.
> >
They made so many of those that the colecter value is not there unless the thing is like factory new