stuck in Te Anau / NZ - Honda TA clutch cable
 

we are on a christmas hollisay trip and our cluch cable broke on the Von Road. AA will get us to Te Anau, but no workshop is open today. Anyone in the area who might have a spare for a 2008 Transalp or one of those universal / fix it ones? cable came clean off the bolt on the leaver side. We are going to be out of reception soon, back online 7 pm NZ time.

that's a great place to be stuck. :) good luck with the clutch.

ok, so we are in Te Anau now, but getting parts or a temporary fix looks like it is going to ba a bit of a misson around christmas ...

Southland Honda, down in Invercargill, should be able to sort you out.

Southland Honda, 77 Clyde Street, Invercargill, 9810
Phone: 03-2144254
Parts: parts@southlandhonda.co.nz

Merry Christmas meanwhile :)

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Thanks everyone, it is looking better. Either a local biker has the right spare, or I will go with the HU approved mole grips version to invercargill to get me to a shop come monday. Till then, it seems, everything down here in the deep wild south is closed :)

ok, hese is what happend:

I posted in a local NZ forum as well as doing some boxing day phone calls. then we went out for a touristy thing for the day that we had booked earlier. when I came back, there were two old but good clutch cables behind my windscreen and a note on the NZ forum. A local biker rode 300km out of his way to drop me the parts.

after some careful work with a borrowed hacksaw, I got 10 cm of the funnel off and fitted on of the cables to my honda (i think its a part for a 450 Kawaski).

It works! so good in fact that this will probalby get us through our trip and back home, or at least to the next dealer that may have spares.

I love bikers, and I love NZ for the fact that you can get an AA tow over 100 km of gravel roads out in the middle of nowhere.:D