ged wrote:Haha. What are the chances of meeting a Rickman guy in a bike Shop?
What's the chances of meeting another Rickman owner.
What's the chances of meeting another Rickman Montesa owner.
What's the chances of meeting any one with SEVEN Rickmans.
What's the chances of meeting that the said owner lives one suburb away from me.
What's the chances of meeting he would be the next customer to walk in.
What's the chances of meeting he's a really nice helpful guy willing to help out (I'm invited to his Man Cave for a tour next week).
What's the chances .......
ged wrote:.... but I can't understand what would be holding it all in there at the moment? The spindle has to be retractable some way?
This particular Rickman has a Silentbloc bushes (the next along Rickman Montesa VR250 has bronze bushes and late model MkIV have needle rollers bearings).
I would have thought Silentbloc was pretty low tech even in 1970 for what is suppose to be a high quality, high value, good handling frame. Having said that they are what hold nearly every car in world up off the ground.
The silentbloc ....
In my case I think the shaft is rusted to the inner steel sleeve.
ged wrote: Is the swingarm actually siezed at the moment? If you can get movement there, it must come out, unless it's retained somehow?
All buttoned up the swing arm currently works fine. Its great, even without shock attached it just sit there. Move through the full arc of movement but that must be the rubber flexing.
"A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." - George Fitch Atlanta Constitution, 1916