Maybe you experienced guys caught this right away, but it just dawned on me. I didn’t make the correlation between the notches circled here and the crack. But now I believe the cause of the crack was a thrown chain that wadded up around the front sprocket.
My uncle used to be a heli-arc welder back in the late 60’s and 70’s and he told me how many cases on Brit bikes he repaired due to that very scenario.
My uncle used to be a heli-arc welder back in the late 60’s and 70’s and he told me how many cases on Brit bikes he repaired due to that very scenario.