25-04-2020, 12:17 PM
Having seen the photos I count myself as extremely lucky. The crank on my RP broke in 1972 at about 1 a.m. when I dropped down into 3rd as I turned into my home road. Fortunately my foot was on the clutch and the engine just stopped. Most unspectacular and it was a short while before I worked out what had happened. No damage to anything else and I just took another suitable crank off the pile of spares then in my garage and was back on the road within a week or so. The crank had broken across the rear web and went on to do good service, mounted on a piece of mahogany as a treasure hunt trophy.