Well, here's one I didn't expect.
Prior to a 250 mile nuts'n'bolts check, I had slackened off the rear brake operating lever as, when the good lady wife was aboard, the rear was binding (I presume from the extra weight compressing the shocks etc). All was fine, put a few more gentle miles on the rebuilt engine and back to my man it went for said torque-checking.
Collected it today (before we come under martial-law and start shooting curfew-breakers) and gave it a few harder miles (which required harder braking) and found that the rear brake pedal had a distinct detent in its travel with a correspondingly exciting extension of stopping distance. Safely home and a closer inspection reveals that the pedal toe guard is catching the collector box and then pushing past it to apply full braking (see photo)
Now, I did not assemble the machine, so my question to all you stars who have is:
If I slacken all the exhaust assembly bolts, will there be enough movement/adjustment available to move the collector box a few mill in-board or do I need to apply brute-force and crank the brake lever out some? I do recall hearing that these systems are a bit fiddly to get lined up.
And yes, I know I have been cheap and powder-coated the levers rather than re-chroming them, but I want use it, not peruse it and I feel it was a contemporary cosmetic solution.