Rear sets wanted- early 3c

Paul Marx said:
Keep the original. You have an excellent rear drum which is excellent partly because you have plenty of leverage on the pedal.
Paul
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I had/have Italian aftermarket rear sets on my 3C, on one of my first rides I approached a bend too hot and stamped on the rear brake pedal... it snapped off !!! I made the bend thankfully and could hear the pedal chink chink chinking, catching me up.
I recovered it and paid a skilful welder to weld it back together for £20, it looked messy, then I found new replacement ones were available for £16, Doh!
I then lengthened the actuating lever to give more leverage.
Another thing with my rear set was how unforgiving they were,
I constantly had a calf full of bruises from the unyielding footpegs when manoeuvring the bike.
Paul is right stick with the standard ones, they're infinitely better and more comfortable :)
 
I’m going to take the good advice and pass on this and stay with the originals, I just wish I could move the gear side foot peg back a bit, it’s a bit tight with my size 10s
 
Mtoliva said:
I’m going to take the good advice and pass on this and stay with the originals, I just wish I could move the gear side foot peg back a bit, it’s a bit tight with my size 10s
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Or else, find an early 750 gear lever, pre 73. Quite a few inches longer.

Paul
 
If you have the opportunity try a triple equipped with OEM rear sets.
You may change your mind real quick....
 
Got to agree with above. I have OEM ( I believe) rear sets on my triple and I find them very comfortable combined with low bars. It doesn't look it but for some reason the combination works with almost no stress on back, neck or wrists. Along with the majority here I am the wrong side of sixty and beginning to creak and groan.
 
I bought a set of rear sets and mounting plates for my 3c off Wolfgang a long time ago. Incredibly expensive plus the cast mounting plates fitted horribly. The peg mounting holes were miles off having the pegs bolt on way off square, it took crazy work to fix that. I plugged the original holes with timber so I could use a 30mm hole saw to square up where the pegs mounted, it cut a circular groove 5mm deep to nothing showing me how much material I needed to grind away and then I used a 25mm grinding wheel to take that 5mm offset one side of the peg landing point to nothing on the other to square up the peg mounting point to the hole. All the bits cost close to $1000oz and that was years ago. I don't know who made those casting but they were complete crap. It all ended up ok with all that work, I do like the way the pegs pivot smoothly and square now. The rest of the bits were fine.
 
you need to state if rear drum or not, the latter, very hard to find and (I dont think) repro'd
CLEM
 
no change there then Gert, ho hum!
I do know where there is a NOS factory set (rear drum type), but they wont be for sale......yet
CLEM
 
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