It's a shaped piece of thick wire, hanging loose around the line for my front brake, broken off roughly at the end. I removed/loosened all of the tupperware from the front end, trying to figure out what this used to be attached to, but couldn't find where it could have broken off from. It sort of resembles a wire on the other side of the wheel which keeps the cable for the speedo/odo from wobbling around too much. My only hypothesis is that it's supposed to do the same thing for the brake line, and was attached to something that used to be connected to the circled bolt hole. But I can't find it in the Buddy parts diagrams. This bike's a 50, but this area of it shouldn't be much different from the 125.
By the way, the parts manual came in handy in trying to solve Ye Olde Extra Parts Problem as I reattached the plastics. I had two bolts that I could not remember where they'd come from, but I was eventually able to decipher the parts diagram to locate the holes they belonged in, and got the whole thing reassembled before the sun went down!
A sort-of unrelated question: In my exploration I noticed that the rubber accordions that cover the pistons of my front shocks are breaking into sections, so they no longer cover them. They looked clean, and its pretty well-shielded by the plastics, though perhaps not from rain splatter. Is this something I should worry about?
