Micron fork brace

[Paul Dawkins]

I saw this ebay listing and thought i would treat myself to an early birthday pressy

This is exactly what it said with nothing taken out and tell me if im wrong but it sounds like a micron fork brace to me.

New Micron Fork Brace

Fits RD250lc And Rd350lc 4l1 and 4l0

Postage Is Sent First Class Recorded Only. International Postage Is Recorded Airmail Only

The listing has now been changed and "repro" added

cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=110529829722&view=all&tid=524000455001
What I received was a fork brace that has been reproduced that has lots of machine grooves/lines in it.
It was not polished and clearly not a genuine Micron fork brace and this was evident as soon as I opened the packet.

it cost £105.50 including post and I did not think it was worth the money for the quality.

Sorry but my photos are crap, I tried to get some close up, im crap at photography.









I am not saying these are crap.
I just think that the listing should state these are reproduction, show clear photographs of the finish and they should be polished.
I purchased a NEW Micron fork brace and when I compare it to the ones on my other RDs it is clearly very different.
With alot of polishing to remove the machining marks it may well look OK but for £100 I would expect it to be perfect.

The description on his new ebay listing now says they are repro and the price has dropped to £85

Legand Motorcycles has offered a full refund immediatly and I will be sending it back on Monday.
At the revised price oif £85 I dont think the price is to bad if you dont mind alot of metal polishing bit still not as good as an original if you can find one.

What do you chaps think???

[Norbo]

Im ether looking threw the bottom of a pint glass full of water or you are the worst photograpfer ever. The one in focus pic i can see it looks ok i must admit .
But having said that if it was ok you woul'nt have put up this up so i dont doubt you if you say is substandard .

But its selling it as New Micron im suprised about when its a coppy he better hope someone from the old Micron compant does not fined out or he will be in trouble aspecialy as they are or were being sold as New Microns. thats just not on coppy right and all that .

[Paul Dawkins]

I will try to take some better photos later.

[herb]

A little cheeky to post as "New Micron fork brace"
But I have to say Legend Motorcycles are providing some really good (repro), bits and pieces for our machines
His LC fuel tanks look really well made and I believe he's looking into making repro powervalve tanks as well
He needs to state his stuff is repro, (which I think he has done now?), but apart from that, people like him deserve our encouragement and our custom. At the end of the day it's the little dedicated businesses like Norbo, Stinkwheels, Simon5, . . . the list goes on, but they will help keep these little bikes of ours on the road for longer

[rd50084matt]

Agree

shame he didnt clarify was repro but bit of polishing be a nice item,and some used ones are pretty mangled-anyone/company trying ot help/supply useful/hard to get bits deserves respect & support,the tooling for tanks must be alot of dosh/time etc....

[Norbo]

I do like the alloy covers look a lot like the ones i used to make but mine were cast alloy.

[mellow]

I can only agree with the above comments. Those look pretty damn good to me..........ok a bit of polishing.........but most fork legs,footrest hangers,wheel rims etc that people polish are done because they are not done originally so no difference really
Its also good to see someone takin the time,effort and paying out to remake some of this NLA stuff for us And yes he should state repro stuff which i now believe he has
Now where are the pipes

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