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i am thinking of converting my strada'd sport back to a sportier style over the long cold winter months but can't quite make up my mind - opinions welcome - which would suit Cumbria where i live-

aside from that the swing arm pin on the gear change side where the grease nipple should go seems to have been drilled and threaded to 8mm where i believe it should be 6. will this allow the fitting of rear sets or do i have to add a new one to my costings?
thanks - duncan

Hi, I've just had a set fitted and I can say that they dramatically improve the riding position, but take into account I have a sport with clip-on bars.

I can't imagine the 6mm / 8 mm hole is a challenge, just drill and countersink a hole for a bigger allenscrew in the rear sets?

Apart from that, some advice I would offer is:

You'll ideally need to take off and shorten by about 1 cm the heatsheild on the exhaust (or the l/h brake pedal is left at a challenging angle to use) and also if you but the modified rear brake cable from NLM, ask them to provide you with one of the newer type they're having made which have a proper adjuster on the rear brake. The type supplied to me had twin locking nuts which were innaccessible to adjust once fitted. I bought a correct adjuster nut, had to cut the nipple off to fit, then re-solder on (or use a solderless nipple).

Once all that was done, I was pleased! Enjoy!

Ohhh... nearly forgot... dont forget you'll need to budget either £30 for a kickstarter displacement block (functional but ugly) or a new modified kickstarter (beautiful but pricey!) . Lots of info on NLM website regarding the rearsets and the kickstarter options. Also a good article about fitting them on the tech-tips section of this website, though thankfully times have moved on and a lot of the challenges he had have now been removed with improved rearset kit and rear brake cable.

thanks - glad to hear that it is no longer as complicated as the tech pages make out-
If i go ahead I will be fitting clip ons or possibly ace bars until i can source a sport top yoke.

duncan

Rearsets are a full-time job and a pain in the a*se, but there's no alternative, seeing as the Sport riding position was wrong from the factory...

You were seeking a sport top yoke to go with rearsets....

someone in 'A tutto gas' is looking to swap thier sport yoke for a strada yoke.... this could be your solution?


he is stuart (no relation to me!) on 01793-790219 or sanjmgc@waitrose.com

good luck

Thank's I'd seen this but would like to retain the original parts if I change it- in case I change my mind- And as i say then decision is not made yet. I am still ineterested in what effect the change would have on handling etc -i don't do particularly long journeys any more and the roads around here are very twisty. ( hard knot pass is 40 minutes away).

one other thing - i have a worriers tendency to expect any second hand vehicle I buy to be not right ( ie crashed and stuck back together with blu tac) so investigating why the swing arm spindle is drilled out to 8mm on the gear side I shine a torch down the hole- My question is how does the grease get to the bushes as all i can see is a blanked off end with a very small c shaped hole/crack slightly at one side of the end- does this sound right?