Some Next Steps

January, 2016; Into the start of a new year.
Once you know what you need to do, most things fall into place.  Some steps taken at the start of the project require follow up, plus many new steps must be initiated.  Planning and research is taking up most of my time at this stage.  Every new part needs research, resourcing and pricing, and every repair or restoration element needs assessment and some final decision.  In fact, I've come to realize that decisions can be more difficult than doing.
One particularly challenging aspect is what to do about the foot pegs and foot controls?  The stock foot peg brackets are long and heavy at roughly 2 lbs each.  The right peg mount is also bent and the right foot peg has been chopped off leaving a 12mm hole where the peg used to be.  The effort/cost to fix will be unrealistic and still not match the left; plus given the weight penalty and the 'knee under your armpits' sitting position, rearsets are in order.  But which ones?  Much research led to the Tarozzi model, however to fit a 1975 850T they require modification.  I lost track of the hours (15+) in trying to engineer fit of brake lever and shift lever both in my mind and on paper.

Rearsets_Plan

From the start, the brake side appeared easy, while any internet forum I searched seemed to suggest that the brake was very difficult to work/fabricate with rearsets.  What concerned me was the shifter side.  I finally determined that I was going to have to ignore the linkage concept and go through the triangular shaped bracket with a spine shaft connected to an actuator arm.  More on this when fabrication takes place later.
The above pdf shows the evolution of ideas on this topic.