1957 Pre-Featherbed Model 50 - centre stand

Shortly I will be starting to restore a 57 ES2 that was missing its centre stand, I have searched fore several years with no luck so finallyI managed to get a locally produced stand for a swingarm model 7, a freind was able to modify this to fit, the 7 stand was 190mm wide but he cut it and narrowed iti think approx 155mm, then it was just amatter of removing a bit of metal to alow the stand to lock open [stand engaged]I have yet to source a spring but hoped a 7 spring mayfit.

Al

Previously Neil Wyatt wrote:

OK Alan,

I bought a stand from club spares for this machine, it seems a little wide to me but so far nobody has come up with the spacer arrangement. I would have photographed it earlier but it was all buried under other stuff until I was ready. I'll get the camera out tomorrow. I'll measure it too.

Please have a look at the swinging arm, I have measured it at the fork as the same width as a featherbed swinging arm, so I might get away with this if I take 1/16 off each side at the pivot end? (Photo's on other thread) So I can get the rear G/box - mudguard bracket to fit.

The stem on the bottom yoke is at an angle, I don't understand that. Is yours at an angle?

A rear mudguard required too. Any ideas?y

My bike is is still in one piece untill I start on it.

Al

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Previously Neil Wyatt wrote:

Thanks for the pictures, Alan.

That's the bike alright.

Did you ever find out about the angle of the bottom yoke stem?

This is the club stand. It measures 8 1/4 inches outside Dia at the pivot end but will need a mod to hit the check / stop plate.

Yes my freind narrowed the cross brace and removed metal where the stand meetsthe stop plate. the yokes on mine appear parallel to the steering head.

Regards Al

Previously Neil Wyatt wrote:

OK Alan,

The stem on the bottom yoke is at an angle, I don't understand that. Is yours at an angle?

I examined my long roadholders carefully and the stem is at an angle to the fork legs giving extra trail. I didn't measure the angle but it looked like 4 - 5 degrees.

I agree with the fork angle, as my M77 has the same. Although I disagree with"there was no sidecar option for long road holders".When I originally was finding parts for this bike, I ended up with a long roadholder yoke stamped "SIDECAR", which I sold in order to finance the rest of the project. The M77, which has the pre-featherbedframe & Long roadholders , was produced primarily for sidecar customers, as they thought that the Featherbbed frame couldnt cope with sidecar loads. That was proven wrong in short order, and the M77 was dropped.

there are several M77 owners in this club with sidecars that may be able to confirm the existance of the long roadholde sidecar yokes.

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