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[Kentish Man]

Hi, just to recap:

1) Replaced broken springs with used genuine English parts (much thicker).
2) Replaced original shoes with English bonded parts from our hosts.
3) Cam bush now floating.
4) Replaced brake arm with longer EFI part from our hosts.
5) Moved brake arm round on spline, so as arm and rod are 90 degrees with brake on.
6) Brake side pillion foot rest temporarily removed to observe brake rod possibly fouling.

Took bike for a 40 mile test run into London yesterday. Brake is better, but still cannot lock wheel (I can on my 1963 RE 250 Clipper!).

I think the next step is to centralise the brake shoes (with brake on) and mark position of now floating cam bush, disassemble hub and fully tighten. Also, inspect brake shoes, springs etc.

So same set up as ericpode apart from 5) above with similar results.

Has anyone converted their Electra X to right foot gear change? If so, with new pedal on left, did it improve the rear brake?

[Ian mc]

When I bought my electra X the first thing I did was the longer brake arm which improved things, so over the winter uk lined brake shoes will be tried, will be interested to see if the change in gear lever to the rhs improves the brake, you would have thought it would good luck.