I've been watching the DVDs and got to the point where he was talking about setting up the bike for the owner. I'd already twigged to making sure the handlebars were comfortable but it hadn't occurred to me to do the pedals.

The way they are at the moment, whether I'm sitting or standing both feet are turned out. This probably isn't the best.

Thanks to the skid plate I really have no room to lower the gear shift. Whatever, it's not so important to be able to rest comfortably on that. The brake, however, is a long way away from where I need it to be when sitting or standing. I guess it's fine when sitting if I sit a long way back but that's far from ideal.

I've been looking at the linkage and I can see no way that I can actually lower the brake lever; it appears like it should be adjustable but there simply isn't enough slack to be taken up.

Now, the previous owner of this fine machine did significant work on it so I'm never quite sure if I'm dealing with the original part or something custom. It could be that this brake pedal isn't factory and that the factory one would give me more room to adjust it.

So I turn to you most knowledgeable people - should I be able to adjust this? If not, how have you gone about lowering it?

Without a pic it's hard to tell what you're looking at.

The stock brake linkage is adjustable. The shaft from the master cylinder goes down through a clevis that attaches to the back of the brake pedal arm. The stock setup has nuts above and below the clevis. The top nut could be hidden by the rubber boot in the master cylinder and the bottom nut is "inside" the clevis.

When I welded up lower foot peg mounts I needed to remove the master cylinder so I could clearly see all the parts andget the nuts as high on the shaft as possible. This put the brake pedal as low in front of the footpeg as possible.