{"id":517,"date":"2011-12-13T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/GuzziRacer.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2015-04-13T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:37:00","slug":"bike-damage-due-assembly-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/bike-damage-due-assembly-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike damage due to assembly error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the failure of the control arm that<br \/>\nsupports the rear diff was caused by the shearing of a 14mm bolt<br \/>\nthat holds the control arm onto the frame. The bolt failed because<br \/>\na support bush had been left off when the bike was assembled at the<br \/>\nfactory. When the bolt failed the control arm moved outwards and<br \/>\nforward, nocking my foot off the beg. The the diff collapsed<br \/>\nforward letting the drive shaft hit the swing arm. As soon as it<br \/>\nhappened I grabbed the clutch and pulled to the side of the track.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t brake as I was unsure what had happened. I just coasted to<br \/>\na stop, all the time the drive shaft was destroying itself and the<br \/>\nswing arm. I have included some photos of the damage. As there is<br \/>\nno such thing as spare parts for an MGS01 I was faced with a real<br \/>\ndilemma . I called my dad, who is a great backyard engineer. He<br \/>\nreckoned he could fix it &amp; 2 days later and the bike was back<br \/>\ntogether. I have run it on the rollers and it all seems fine. I<br \/>\nguess I won&#8217;t really know until we get to the<br \/>\ntrack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\nhttp:\/\/GuzziRacer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20111126-094838.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" \/> src=&#8221;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/GuzziRacer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/20111126-094838.jpg&#8221;<br \/>\nalt=&#8221;&#8221; class=&#8221;alignnone size-full&#8221; \/&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the failure of the control arm that supports the rear diff was caused by the shearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3337,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guzziracer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}