Has anyone a spare set of front fork bushes for a 25DC. If so Bob Culver of Letchworth is looking for a pair. If you can help please phone him on 01462 673705
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John. Bob has already been in touch with VS and has bought the last bush they have in stock, but of course he needs a pair, not good practice to fit one new bush. Robush Ltd have no stock and would require a minimum order to re manufacture. Terry Sewell has no bushes left and will not be ordering another batch in view of the high cost involved. So bottom line is that unless someone is prepared to fork out a large some of money for a new batch to be made, (well two batches actually as the rubber is a different hardness for comp & road bikes). there may be a lot of Greeves bikes out of action in coming months.
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Thanks John. I had already had a similar discussion with Bob, but did wonder whether something "magical" might transpire from connected multiple enquiries of the companies mentioned. Don't know about Greeves bikes going out of action as a consequence, though. There has been a way round this kind of problem in the past, especially for the scrambles fraternity ............... ?
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Whilst most parts for Greeves can be manufactured, the bushes are are difficult to re manufacture unless you have the tooling and expertise of rubber molding. Whilst there are companies who can produce these, they have minimum orders which as I said in my previous post can be a large quantity requiring a huge capital outlay that few commercial business would want to commit to. There is also the issue of safety, failure of a re-manufactured bush could result in injury and ever death. Thus resulting in legal proceedings against the manufacturer.
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Originally posted by IanCordes View PostHas he tried Richard Deal at Greeves Motorcycles?Last edited by John Wakefield; 30/07/2022, 01:42 PM.
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OD 71.12mm ID 34.93mm Length (inner) 44.95mm (outer 41.15mm) Shore hardness 45 trials/scramble 50 road. You need a special gauge to check hardness https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Har...43842540&psc=1
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Thanks very much John. Grasping at straws really but wondered if I did a trawl of all the proprietary bushes on the market, then a bit of modification/ machining may produce a useable item. Conversely could I adapt the Greeves housings etc to take a proprietary bush. I'm sure that good people from the GRA have looked into this before but if you don't ask you don't get.
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Originally posted by tonyed27 View PostI have just ordered a pair from Bob at Villiers he appears to have both 45 and 50 shore.Last edited by John Wakefield; 16/11/2022, 01:09 PM.
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https://villiersservices.co.uk/index...roducts_id=384
https://villiersservices.co.uk/index...roducts_id=385
Perhaps these are not the ones required or indeed the ones I think they were. On re-looking there does seems to be a lack of the necessary toque slots and pin slots
Perhaps it is a case of fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Anyway anyone looking for Yamaha racing parts 1968 to 2006 please see my website @ https://rhsyamahabitz.com/Last edited by tonyed27; 16/11/2022, 02:35 PM.
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