One of the rear footrests did not collapse any longer when I bought the machine. After cleaning the mufflers I decided it was time to fix this. After dismantling I found that the ball and spring mechanism was rusty. A thorough cleaning and reassembling fixed the problem. Now the footrest clips in and out without any problems.
Front footrest - right hand side
Rear footrest left hand side
- 1 Notch bolt
- 2 Blocking ring
- 9 Fixing plate
- 12 Spring rear foot rest
- 13 Ball for rear foot rest 6,35
- 14 Footrest
Disassembled rear footrest from my bike
From left to right: 2 – 9 – 13 – 12 – 14 – 9 - 1
The right hand rear holder on the bike frame
this picture was taken while the muffler holder was removed.
Removing and cleaning the REAR footrest
- With a plier remove the blocking ring (2) from the notch bolt (1) and put it aside.
- While holding your hand under and around the footrest to hold any pieces from falling on the ground, remove the notch bolt.
- Carefully slide the footrest (14) out of the bike frame, keep the fixing plates (9) together, because the spring (12) might push the little ball (13) out and you don’t want this to disappear on the floor.
- I have cleaned the rusty ball and spring with a little WD-40 spray. The footrest was cleaned with aluminium cleaner.
Reassembly
- Put the spring in the footrest
- Place the ball on top of the spring and push it so that it sits in the footrest.
- Now slide on of the fixing plates over the ball, try to keep the ball in the hole of the footrest. The 2 fixing plates are symmetrical and can be on either side of the footrest. The fixing plates have one rounded corner, this matches the rounded corner of the holder on the bike frame and not the rounded corner of the footrest.
- Place the other fixing plate on the other side of the footrest.
- Keep the notch bolt ready.
- Slide everything in the holder, while keeping the ball and spring inside the footrest.
- Insert the notch bolt from the top (on the picture of the rear holder it is on the top right hand side) and slide it downwards(on the picture to the bottom left side), through the fixing plate and footrest until it comes out at the lower side.
- Keep the bolt in place with one hand and test the footrest a few times if it clicks in the up and down position easily.
- Put the retaining ring back over the bolt.
