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Roadside Tips and Tricks for getting you Home

Locke

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What Tricks have you used to get your wounded bike home? Anyone been broke down on the side of the road and come up with a way to temporarily repair or rig your ride so you could limp home?

Reading ZZroadking's problem with his clutch (lever, cable) started me thinking about how I would react and what I would do.

Years ago a broke throttle cable was rigged by tying a bandanna to the end of the cable, I rappped the bandanna around my palm, and used my thumb to move the throttle. (much like a 4wheeler throttle) Very crude but was able to make it home.


So what tricks, mods have you used or seen used that may help one of us one day?
 
A couple of years ago when away on a trip with wife both of us on sportsters as we came to the end of the motorway at dunblane i heard a funny rattling jingling sort of sound from the bike so i pulled over in a layby to investigate
i found that the rear rubber mounts for the aftermarket tank had gone missing and that the sound i heard was the rod that went through the frame to which the rubber mounts had been attatched so rear of tank was sitting on the frame
i found some tyre debris in the central reservation of the road and cut it up to wrap round the frame to support the tank i held it in place by my wifes scarf
it lasted well for the rest of the trip and now i always carry zip ties

Brian
 
Zip ties, when my kicker spring on my 60 FL broke LOL:s
 
had an old honda that the cluch cable broke. i just shifted it with out it on the way home.

my harley had the rectifier go out and I shut off everything I could that was electrical and I ended up coasting to my driveway. :D
 
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