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29 Sep 2012
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I once had a throttle cable snap on my CB750, these bikes had two cables, one to open and one to close, so I popped the tank off and swapped the ends over on the carb linkages, that gave me a throttle that worked backwards, interesting ride home
I also had the throttle cable snap on a puch moped, this time I tied the cable around the footbrake lever and slackened off the rear brake cable, riding home with a foot operated throttle was a little interesting, on the same bike another time the throttle cable snapped again, so I removed the slide completely, leaving me with a motor that would only run flat out, a bump start and using the killswitch to change gear was easy enough with only 3.8 BHP.
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30 Sep 2012
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Originally Posted by Stewart H
that gave me a throttle that worked backwards, interesting ride home
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That's truly heroic.
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If we're recounting historic stuff; on my FS1E, the spark plug threads got knackered and the thing used to fly out with a big POP, usually when doing a stupid overtake with my chin on the tank in typical FS1E high-speed mode. Always easily fixed using the foil from inside a pack of Embassy No1, wrapped round the plug before re-fitting.
The ignition switch gave up so once it was hot-wired, I used to stop it by either stalling or reaching down and pulling off the plug cap.
The stand fell off so I used to have to find somewhere to lean the bike or just lay it down.
The kick-start also fell off so in the last few months of ownership it was bump-start only.
The headlamp wiring melted one day so I used a push-bike light taped to the front to satisfy plod. Stayed like that for months.
The throttle cable snapped once but I managed to tie it to my knee so I could lift my leg to accelerate and get me home. I did a proper fix with this though; a knot in the end of the cable with a good blob of solder, filed to fit the twist grip. Ok, so I had to shorten the outer of the cable which meant that the revs went up if I turned the bars to much.
Still got £75 when I sold it as it was 1974 unrestricted model.
Happy Days !!!!
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20 Oct 2012
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Non-motorbike story.
Worn out disc brake pads on a Ford F350 in Africa. Pads are NOT available anywhere. Find a pad that can be welded onto the backing you have left and continue on. We did this for about a month till visitors brought us the correct parts.
I've since tossed the welded together pads.
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27 Dec 2012
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One of my Son's friends rode by the other day with his moped's throttle cable snapped off at the nipple at the throttle tube...he rode by with the cable in his teeth!!! buuuurrrrr
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27 Dec 2012
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Fencing wire
Just a big and very humble THANK YOU.
To all the farmers / property owners who have unknowingly supplied fencing wire, to fix, tow, tie and numerous other temporary fixes to get mobile.
Many of us would have found this commodity lifesaving !
Seasons greetings and happy travels
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