Pre-Show Preparations
Kempton Park and
the venue for the Southern Classic Bike Show this Saturday. I have not been out
much over the last week as I over did it a little doing major DIY and am
suffering for it. Needless to say that it didn’t stop me from going to the
local 2CV club meeting on Monday night and during this week I have been
constructing a bracket to help hold down an LE on my trailer. The last time the
LE was on the trailer was going to and from the Stafford Classic Bike show where
the tying down straps did a little damage to the paintwork even though there
was padding there to stop that.. The idea of the bracket is to get the straps
away from the body work and chafe something else not important. It was
constructed with a few bits of angle iron, some strip, a few bits of bar and a
bit of felt. I welded it all together on
my portable oxy-acetylene welder. I just don’t do enough of it to be any good.
It was cleaned up and painted yesterday for
one of the LE club members, Chris to borrow said bracket and trailer so he
could get his LE to the show on Saturday. He is doing the test run for me. The
bracket has a curved strip between the two pieces of angle so that the over the
bike retaining strap is kept away from everything. The side bars are for the
left and right straps to tie down from. The whole lot sits under the seat
wedged onto the body that is protected by the felt. The over the bike strap
should hold the bracket in place.
As you can see I now have my new discounted
battery in place and for the LE enthusiast who has converted his LE to 12 volts
it is a YB7C-A. This morning I’m getting scissors sellotape and Bluetac
together for putting up the pictures and drawings on the stand this afternoon.
George is coming with me to help out.
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