Following a pleasant lunch with John V6 in the quirky old Queens Head in Suffolk village of Bramfield, Leo the Lhasa and I returned home in mostly sunshine nicely missing the rain which had just started to spit.

3pm so plenty of time to put Morton the the ramp for a quick grease of front suspension. All was going swimmingly well until, despite wheels still being in place, I noticed something amiss with the front o/s shock absorber.

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Now I had noticed a bit of a clatter over a bad bump on the way to pub but have weathered worse and certainly wasn't expecting this. Pleased though that no harm seems to have been caused to surrounding areas or shock absorber. Pulled wheel off, removed stay fixing and kingpin top bolt, then extracted remains of bracket from suspension and shock absorber. Pleased that after careful consideration, the removal of kingpin bolt still leaves springs safely in place.

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A clean break through the upper wingstay fixing hole although it may have partially cracked earlier. New one already on order from MR although they use their own reference number rather than MMC's MFS0620 noting it appears to be common to all trads. Can't recall seeing a break of this hefty 6mm thick bracket on TM before. Just wondered if anyone else has suffered the same fate?

Richard

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