Well, the breakage fix described in my last post

[www.velovision.co.uk]

seemed to go OK, but after a brief ride I checked the rear end again and noticed that the whole rear block was now splitting in two, with corrosion running along a crack right back into the main frame tube. Decided it was best to concede defeat for now and have taken it off the road - in fact it's gone up into our loft until I can get a proper chance to do some serious work on it (might be a while with the launch of Electric Bike magazine)... I'll probably have to get the whole rear block out then make a new one.

Meanwhile as requested some time ago by the other Peter here's a pic of the ratchet I machined to get it on the road when I first got it back:



You can see some wear already - it's just unhardened stainless steel.



And this from the other side of the trike is what a proper hardened original one should look like: