Ivy: Speedo Gear and Front Brake

With a hard stop to the garage session, I wasn't sure how much I wanted to try to do.

Started out easy by testing out the new shift pedal (stock).  It was a much better fit but quickly realized it was bent a bit out of shape.  Fiddled a bit with how to hold it down to hammer it back.  Finally settled on putting a big bolt through the center then just stepping on it to hold it in place while I whacked the end with the deadblow hammer.  Really surprised that it worked, to be honest.

With the stock pedal mounted, shifting felt pretty close to Ivy and Roxy.  At least, having that slightly lower peg bars don't seem to be a deal-breaker anymore.  Good enough for test riding at least.

With that bit of "garage luck", decided to go for it with the Ivy front wheel.

This was the first test of the jack stands under each side of the pegs.  But I also added the wood stool under the engine.  Turns out that in terms of holding up the bike, the stool by itself worked absolutely fine.  Though it was nice having the jack stands as insurance.  But now it seems as though I should focus on customizing the stool to fit perfectly under the engine with the peg bars in place then continue to use the jack stands as backup (and they'll need some shims underneath to get them a little higher).

With all that in place, the only thing fiddly about removing the front wheel is getting the fender bolts off.  After that, it was easy to remove the bottoms of the axle holders, then just pull each shock up and over to remove the wheel. 

On to the speedo gear.  As soon as I touched it, it "popped" into place and I thought that it was just misaligned. 

But more surprising was that it didn't have the EBC grooved brake I thought it did.  Not sure where I'd gotten the idea that I'd upgraded them.  Grabbed one of the two EBCs in the bin and did the swap.

With that done, I reassembled everything.  With the wheel back in, I walked the bike around to make sure the speedo arm seemed to be turning - which it definitely was.

Note: you can't run the speedo/brake cables through the fender holder because the cables are too short.

June 17 update:  Unfortunately, no joy on the fix.  Within a few blocks, it was clear neither the speedo or odo were moving at all.

Came back to the garage and removed the cable from the speedo side and taped it to the brake cable so I could walk the bike and watch it.  The cable was definitely not moving anymore.

So thinking through this:

• The cable itself is working, which is an easy test to do.  Also easy to swap out to test another cable.
• The speedo is pretty sure to be working, since again, a pretty straight-forward test and also another easy one to swap.
• This is very similar to what happened before, where the speedo gear seemed to turn but then stopped after awhile.  It must be that it starts off working and in alignment, but something happens and it stops.
• The problem could be...
• Just the speedo gear itself, which would be the best case scenario.
• The brake, which would just mean swapping over to the newly purchased spare.
• Or, very worst case, it's something to do with the hub, in which case we're talking swapping to a new wheel entirely.