07-11-2021, 05:56 PM
The important thing is that the arms eventually crack - they don't suddenly snap. So, if cleaned, polished, examined and then coated in a grease or similar - as the previous owner of my Chummy did - it's easy to check every so often. Hence, if you haven't done this on your Seven yet, you ought to. As most of us now do only relatively few miles a year - no longer the 20,000 miles of decades ago - this would seem to be sufficient.