rocketonarail
Hero member
- Location
- Gloucestershire,England
...... the throttle cable broke.Sort of unexpected as no particular strain on the inner,but there you are.
Happened whilst taking part in the National Rally ( Control points all over the country,pick one to start from at 2pm Sat. , and visit as many as possible without exceeding 500 miles,on paper that is,more like 600 taking into account getting lost,wrong turns etc., ride through the night and everyone converges at a final control point no later than 10 am Sun.,then,if it finishes at Doncaster as it did one year,another 250 mile ride home,for me anyway,great fun-or it used to be,now survives in emasculated form with no manned controls and no night riding I believe,all due to you know what).
Anyway,dug out spare cable which didn`t fit,must have been for a twin or something,my own fault for not checking,so threw both cables away and contemplated the 70 mile trip home on the back of a recovery truck.
Then it occured to me you only need revs to get the thing moving again,so I turned the tickover adjuster to 100% ,which gave about 2500 rpm which was enough for about 40,maybe 45 mph on the flat bits ,in fact it worked so well I was half tempted to continue on the rally,but then I thought about all the hills around Derbyshire and decided against it.
Just give the bike a little nudge forward pulling away from the lights and engaging first wasn`t too crunchy.
Yamaha may have thrown away the throttle cable on their `06 R6 but I beat them to it ten years earlier on the Mirage.
Happened whilst taking part in the National Rally ( Control points all over the country,pick one to start from at 2pm Sat. , and visit as many as possible without exceeding 500 miles,on paper that is,more like 600 taking into account getting lost,wrong turns etc., ride through the night and everyone converges at a final control point no later than 10 am Sun.,then,if it finishes at Doncaster as it did one year,another 250 mile ride home,for me anyway,great fun-or it used to be,now survives in emasculated form with no manned controls and no night riding I believe,all due to you know what).
Anyway,dug out spare cable which didn`t fit,must have been for a twin or something,my own fault for not checking,so threw both cables away and contemplated the 70 mile trip home on the back of a recovery truck.
Then it occured to me you only need revs to get the thing moving again,so I turned the tickover adjuster to 100% ,which gave about 2500 rpm which was enough for about 40,maybe 45 mph on the flat bits ,in fact it worked so well I was half tempted to continue on the rally,but then I thought about all the hills around Derbyshire and decided against it.
Just give the bike a little nudge forward pulling away from the lights and engaging first wasn`t too crunchy.
Yamaha may have thrown away the throttle cable on their `06 R6 but I beat them to it ten years earlier on the Mirage.