Snap!

[Steph]

Coming round Nine Elms into Vauxhall Corner trying to
beat all the rest of the traffic last night....my bloody throttle
cable snapped!!!! how the bike stayed up I don't know.

Anyway it's only 6 months old because both my fraying cables
were replaced after a long trip in Spain/France.

Is it me? Bad luck! or a common problem.

I'm probably going to Europe again this summer and I
really don't want it to happen on a hairpin !!!!!

Steph :bunny: :confused:

[steviej]

****e Steph, you were lucky there. AND only 6 months, wot a bummer.

I seem to remember a FEW years ago there was something on the market that 'injected' a lubricant down the cables manually. But Merlot's kicked in and my memory's fading fast, can't think what it was called.

Anybody else remember this????

[Steph]

Thanks Stevie...you're right I was very lucky.
By the way not one biker stopped to see if I
was okay. They probably thought I'd stopped
to answer my mobile.....................I was actually
waiting TWENTY BLOODY minutes for the RAC to
answer their EMERGENCY :confused: phone line.


Although man-in-white-van x 4 did offer to pick me up!!!?

Bike goes in Monday I will ask about the auto-lube-thing.

God!! if it goes on a French Motorway I'm going to
be road-kill.

Hope it was a good bottle. :p

Steph :bunny:

[spacemonkey]

I wonder if it wasn't routed properly and stress wore it out?

[spacemonkey]

Oh, and tell us more about your trip to Spain. How many miles in a day and what was the total?

[thesaxman]

a tip from the old days steph, when you get your new cable fitted, buy a spare one and tape it to the new one, then if it should go again on the continent, it will be a doddle to swap over.

[Steph]

:) God you lot are up early!! or in very late!

It was actually across the Pyrenees, mainly on the
Spanish side then France coming through Roussillon to the
coast then slowly up to near Clemont-Ferrand and
then VERY QUICKLY on boring mototways to Calais.

We did pootle around a bit on the way down
because the food and wine/beer were so good.

So some days we did more miles than others.

Anyway 3000 miles in total, averaged out over
ten days as 300 miles a day.


:D Funny thing is I hadn't ridden my bike for a year,
got scared....so CK offered to go out with me one
Sunday, which I couldn't make because of an emergency
at work..................................and then the next thing
she sees is that I've gone on this trip!!!
:confused:

Now ok as ride it to work every day.

I think I'll get my mate to bring his van with
spares for everything..................even better a
spare bike:burnout:

Ta Steph x