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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
Race bikes gets lots off maintenance and upgrades. Lots of disassembly and re-assembly. There's a certain amount of worn-out fasteners and lack of torque-wrench usage involved. Safety wire is 2ndary back-up for that.
My race org forbids using safety wire as primary retention for MC plates. Does allow using as backup though.
I've lost a MC clip once. Then I realised there actually 4 orientations to install clip, not just the 2 most people are familiar with. Never lost clip again after that. |
Now that makes sense, Thank you again for sharing helpful info!
Clips are going back on and then safety wired.
Paul