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Put the clutch on the right side. I rode a friends with clutch on left just wasn't comfortable and wanted something different. So I moved the rear brake to the shifter and the clutch to the rear brake.
I put about 200 miles on Saturday and Sunday I got home last night and found a problem. The custom rear fender is attached to the swingarm in three locations. I found that a bolt had fallen out of one of the mid point connections, which put extra stress on the other mid point connection, which caused it to fail (break). Fortunately the other connections held up.
Today I refabricated the brackets that failed. Hopefully that will fix the problem. We will see...............
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