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Re: Gear lever

Posted by hendred on Apr 24, 2020; 12:36pm
URL: http://silk-motorcycles.221.s1.nabble.com/Gear-lever-tp5001852p5001860.html

Totally confused now.  I looked at my steel gear lever and it looks well made with very neat welds and a grease nipple.  Whoever made it made a neat job and looks right for the bike.  However, looking at pictures of bikes they certainly had alloy gear levers on MKII bikes.  The only problem is I couldn't find clear pictures of a right hand gear change on a bike later than a high fifties engine number.  Did Silk  change to a steel fabrication for the later bikes?  I Don't know.  If Clive is reading this may be he knows the answer.  Found a picture of George Silk's restored bike at Kop Hill Climb.  The gear change lever looks like highly polished stainless and nothing like my steel one or the alloy one.  Any idea at this time of the cost of an alloy lever?