Prowler

[LIAW]

right then, due to emotional feelings I've not done anything with the bike, but now there is a spark starting inside me again, it's been hard to get round to making a start so I just thought ''start at the bottom'',

so I have sorted out the main stand problem (I hope) of not raising the bike far enough, the rear wheel was only 5mm off the ground on level surfaces, I thought it would be the bolts out of round and while there was a little bit of 'ovalling' in the bolt holes I didn't think it was enough to cause lowering of the bike, the underside of the mainstand feet were really worn and bent though, so I have welded on a couple of 4mm plates to create a level surface again, the weld easily burnt through the existing metal so I know it had become thin,

the other thing was the stand wouldn't return to the fully upright position, I thought it was weak springs but actually the sides of the holes were very lightly 'mushroomed' over making the area thicker and jamming it in the mounts, I re-painted it too and it should look better than the rust  , I'll refit it later, one small piece at a time