Another brake pedal mod (freebie)

[danimal2]

I have been looking at the beautiful scoot works brake pedal or possibly buying a Drifter pedal and started brain storming today while driving around at work. Thought I could come up with something that may not be as pretty, but not altogether ugly and still as functional as the other possibilities. I have a hard time justifying $180 for a brake pedal.

I had used gadget's trick to spline the pedal up a notch, but it put it right over my foot and it took two very deliberate motions to get on the pedal. This had me concerned and I needed something else before I got myself hurt. Not to take away from that mod. It's free and better than the stock setup.

The problem it seemed was more an issue of how wide the pedal was whether it be in the stock position or a notch higher. I thought about just cutting it down and doing away with the rubber pad, but figured that would look terrible.

Here's what I ended up doing.

This is a view from the pilot's seat. You can see almost the entire floorboard is free and clear now.



I cut the pedal in half. Moved the cut off piece to the top and welded it back on. The screw hole that keeps the pad on still ends up in the proper location to put the pad back on and install the screw. I suck at welding and just have a $100 Chinese flux core welder, but you can't even see the weld when it's done. Whether it looks good or not, it's hidden unless you literally crawl under the bike to look for it. It's also not a structural or critical weld. That factory weld stays where it is so even if your weld breaks it won't affect your ability to stop.

Here's a quick diagram of the thing. This honestly took me 30 minutes to do, including the welding. The hardest part was getting that friggin spring back on the brake pedal. probably 10 minutes just for that.



Couple more angles. I splined it back to it's stock location and it ended up being just right. I think this is going to work out pretty good. It feels real good when you go for the brake. It's right there. Much quicker to get to and I got my floorboard back. Other than the lines in the rubber pad running the wrong way it doesn't look half bad.

Oh yeah..............did I mention it's FREE!