So, a perhaps penultimate update:
A look at the stand dropping mechanism and a comparison to my orange bike that has a completely different mechanism.
The reason I am comparing them is because the black bike has a cable end point that suggests that the black bike had the stand actuation mechanism similar to the orange bike, confused....I know I am... Photos will explain!
Firstly: the mechanism that I have bodged for the black bike. the cable pulls a lever that causes the cranked kicker to kick down the stand. The gas strut keeps the stand up or down, because of how it is set up. The spring pulls the kicker back.
On the orange bike the mechanism is different:
The cable is at the front of the load area and the mechanism is independent of the wooden load plate.
The cable pulls a lever (Latch) and the gas strut drops the stand. The gas strut is always ready to drop the stand as soon as the latch gets out of the way. The latch is held in the way of the stand cam by a spring or reed made out of two little pieces of carbon fibre. A Burrows special I'd say.
The downside of the orange bike method is that if the mechanism isn't set up right and is too loose a bump can bounce the latch and dislodge the stand cam and the stand will drop because of the gas strut. But on the orange bike over the last 5 years of riding I reckon the gas strut has failed so it is only gravity acting on the stand and it drops nicely under gravity, so maybe the strut is overkill for this type! The yellow bike has only got the possibility to have the kicking lever. Of course you can use your foot to drop the stand with the kicking lever. But not the type on the orange bike.
I have managed to raise the stand while riding by wrapping my toe backwards. It's not too difficult.
Hopefully these photos explain what is happening, and will be useful to someone who has one of the 100 Burrows Engineering 8Freights out there! Or maybe the other 97 are all different too!
My next post might be the wrap up with some after photos, the bike works now!
A look at the stand dropping mechanism and a comparison to my orange bike that has a completely different mechanism.
The reason I am comparing them is because the black bike has a cable end point that suggests that the black bike had the stand actuation mechanism similar to the orange bike, confused....I know I am... Photos will explain!
Firstly: the mechanism that I have bodged for the black bike. the cable pulls a lever that causes the cranked kicker to kick down the stand. The gas strut keeps the stand up or down, because of how it is set up. The spring pulls the kicker back.
On the orange bike the mechanism is different:
The cable is at the front of the load area and the mechanism is independent of the wooden load plate.
The cable pulls a lever (Latch) and the gas strut drops the stand. The gas strut is always ready to drop the stand as soon as the latch gets out of the way. The latch is held in the way of the stand cam by a spring or reed made out of two little pieces of carbon fibre. A Burrows special I'd say.
The downside of the orange bike method is that if the mechanism isn't set up right and is too loose a bump can bounce the latch and dislodge the stand cam and the stand will drop because of the gas strut. But on the orange bike over the last 5 years of riding I reckon the gas strut has failed so it is only gravity acting on the stand and it drops nicely under gravity, so maybe the strut is overkill for this type! The yellow bike has only got the possibility to have the kicking lever. Of course you can use your foot to drop the stand with the kicking lever. But not the type on the orange bike.
I have managed to raise the stand while riding by wrapping my toe backwards. It's not too difficult.
Hopefully these photos explain what is happening, and will be useful to someone who has one of the 100 Burrows Engineering 8Freights out there! Or maybe the other 97 are all different too!
My next post might be the wrap up with some after photos, the bike works now!
