Rear-set gear shift and brake control

Perhaps, one or two of you here still remember my "Mad Max bikes",
I’ve always enjoyed the riding position on my "Goose-Bike".... These days, those "Moto-Italia" controls are very rare—and quite expensive to get hold of when they do turn up. Last Friday, I was lucky enough to buy a set right here in my hometown. So, after doing a bit of prep work over the last few days, I got busy today and installed the controls back onto my A2. (It’s always great—and helpful—to have a small lathe in the garage... Everything went smoothly; I just took it for a test ride, and it feels exactly like I remember—yippee!



 

Wow! All the way back to the passenger peg location!  Hooray for good knees!!!
(P.S Beautiful bikes.)

Thank you!
 (the riding position is actually better for my knees and hips than the stock setup because they aren't bent as sharply anymore. -In the original position, they were bent at nearly 90 degrees, whereas now it's a bit more relaxed... Combined with the flat drag bar, it feels just like sitting on a drag bike—)   

Heck Joe as smart as You are at the helm of a lathe you could of just started from scratch and turned out a whole duplicate on lunch break ha. Less stress on lower body, more stress on forearms. A touch of golden anodizing flair to boot!

Hey Clay, thanks, but you're giving me too much credit In this case, I just had to fabricate two special screws (reducing the head diameter from 12mm to 8mm), cut the lever off the linkage mechanism and weld it back on in a new position, and make the rods—including adjusting the linkage geometry... and I'm not entirely happy with the "gold" finish... sure, it echoes the gold stripes in the paintwork, but I might have the levers fine-blasted at some point; then they'd be natural aluminum... (And BTW: I'm currently in the process of wrapping up my freelance work and closing down my workshop... the effort involved has started to outweigh the returns ;-(