Serendipity as it would work, the bracket on mine (AK) went LOOSE last week, but I didn't even have the bracket in thanks to my less than competent Vespa/Piaggio service center (which is actually a Triumph dealer). I basically had a wing nut holding the bolt in. Stupidly, not thinking about it, I should have put some thread lock on it given the road/motor/exhaust vibrations that the bike has to deal with.
Because of the looseness of the wing nut, the AK must have rattled around until finally, my header pipe cracked, and then basically just completely severed at the collar. The bike went to completely embarrassing, annoying loud from its former sounding like a bad ass Harley loud.
I'm actually RIGHT NOW doing the work on my header pipe and the modified bracket that I somehow found lying around the garage. And no, it's not actually a real bracket.
I went searching around the net for a replacement bracket, but after about an hour of using my friend, Google (as OAD puts it), I gave up.
I then went around the garage for odds and ends parts to see if I could construct a make-shift bracket that would offer just as good support, if not better, without having to be a professional steel bender to make my own custom one.
So here's what I discovered after 15 minutes of searching the garage.
As soon as my eyes feasted on it, I literally could see (envision) a match to the internal architecture where the AK bracket would fit. And get this...
It happened to be a Curtain Rod bracket that ended up being the victim of this make-shift setup.
Let's just go to the pictures for further visuals (I'll do another post with pics so I don't lose this text)...