I've been doing some searching on the Web and have found rearsets that are if not identical to Rycas,  they are an almost perfect match,  along with some other universal ones that look very high quality from $55-120, rather than the $160 Ryca price.   My only question is does anyone know of a bracket that would work besides the $300 one from Ryca?   I'd love to just be able to spend money so easily and just get the ones made for this bike but at that price there is no way and given the fact I've found alternatives to almost everything Ryca make (not saying they aren't a great product,  just in my opinion a bit pricy),  there has to be a bracket alternative to theirs that's not so expensive.   Any suggestions???

If RYCA made 10,000 of any part.....I am sure the price could be dropped considerably.  Their prices reflect the fact that they are a low volume manufacturer, and everything is pretty much hand made.  Sure they have some things cut out with programmed cutters, and they have some jigs to hold things together while they are welded - but it is all highly labor intensive.  It takes skilled welders and crafstman.....and most likely they are located in California where the labor and overhead rates are very high.

The rear set bracket is very well made, fits like a glove, and there is no alternative other than to make your own.  I have lots of equipment to fabricate things - but I bough their rear set bracket and am glad I did.  It would have taken me a week to design and fabricate one like they make.

I am not a fan of their rear set pegs/pedals however.  I believe the toe portion sticks out too far and makes you ride "duck footed".  No factory sport bike makes you splay your feet out to get over and under the shift pedal.  I bought this set from Dime City.
http://www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-racer-caferacer-custom-motorcycle-...

It is also necessary to fabricate some form of pedal stop for the brake pedal.  The RYCA setup does not have one and the brake pedal can be lifted up out of position, and you can't get a good adjustment on the brake pedal.  You can go to my Bike Build or the one that Gerry did to see how you can make a brake stop.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1358099938
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1385498224

Dave

Dave wrote on 05/14/14 at 05:14:23:


I saw the ones you linked and had also saw the ones I'm linking below on lowbrocustoms,  but DCC is also selling them out seems and I couldn't help but notice what it says about installation on the DCC website.   It says to mount them you just need to fill a 3/8th inch hole anywhere and your good to go.   Would this work on our bike?   Take a look at them and give me some thoughts.   Also,  I've seen a lot of different rearsets mounted simply with a pieces of machined metal that has a few points it attaches to on the bike then you simply hook your rearsets up to this.   Why couldn't this be done with rearsets for our bike?

http://www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-racer-caferacer-custom-motorcycle-...

Hopefully in next week or two I am going to be making a rearset bracket for my bike. I will be posting pics in my thread. If you think it would work for you I can make a second.

I will try to document the fabrication when I get there and you can see if it will work. I will need to see what the end result weighs for shipping. I don't know, in raw steel, $50 plus cost to ship?

I have not forgotten about this, work is getting in the way of the bike. As soon as I have one fabbed up I will post up some pics.

Apologies, I haven't gotten to the bracket. Some family and work things have come up lately and my time in the garage has been limited. I hope to be working on the bracket soon. Again, sorry for the delay, not trying to string you along or anything. My timeline has just gotten longer recently.