Been changing over my front foot pegs. "Oh its easy!" they say "Just stick a bar in there as you take out the swingarms spindle" they say. Well they didn't say "total knobheads should not attempt it!" I gone and really fecked up.
All started real well, I losened off the pivot nut, tapped the spindle through a little, then found a bar suitable to slide through as the spindle slid out. The bar I used was a perfect fit metal tent pole. When the spindle was almost out I tapped as in real lightly tapped the bar to drive it out the last little amount, then the bar made a metallic sound so I stopped tapping. By this point I was able to pull the spindle out and then proceeded to just change the right hand foot rest assembly. Got most of that done okay then proceeded to push the swingarm spindle back through as I slid out the bar.
Oh yeah here it comes CLUNK!!
WTF, Gives the bar another tug as its almost out CLINK!!
So I gave a tap on the spindle to see if it could tap the bar out.
Not a chance!
So I proceeded over the next three hours to try remove this bar and yes that also included using a bloody big hammer too. The bar was free sliding but then came to a metallic clunk before it's out. I have given up and will tackle it again tonight. I'm at the stage of removing the last 4 inches as I have now snapped off the protruding bar and trying to do a lengthways cut with a hacksaw blade to see if I can fold it in on itself to remove it. The problem now is that I am dropping metal filings into the swing arm needles.
So Thumper, at this rate I may not be able to make it to Hagbourne on Tuesday with my bike
bet you feel a right tit now 
