Stuck at Te Anau - broken clutch on Honda TA

[BlackSheepLogic]

Most people you meet won't be like that.

My experience of helping someone off here was a bit different. A couple of Auckland faggots had a flat tyre at a motel about 20km from my place, took a pump & all the shit to sort it.They stood around like helpless fuckwits & couldn't even be arsed pumping the pump. No thanks or fuckin nothing

[unstuck]

Most people you meet won't be like that.

Yep, that has been my experience too.
Occasionally you meet someone who is an ungrateful specimen, but then that just makes me challenge my own motives for offering to help people anyway if I am offended by things like that.

[sidecar bob]

Yep, that has been my experience too.
Occasionally you meet someone who is an ungrateful specimen, but then that just makes me challenge my own motives for offering to help people anyway if I am offended by things like that.

I am offended by behaviour like that. I was brought up with manners.
I'm sure said morons could have paid someone for the same service I provided free of charge, then manners wouldn't really have been a factor.
As I sell vehicle repairs for a business, I guess I could have come with my work cap on & charged them mileage & triple time since it was Sunday.
When's the last time you were painting a fence & a tradesman painter you didn't know pulled up & gave you a hand just because he was a good cunt?

[unstuck]

I am offended by behaviour like that. I was brought up with manners.
I'm sure said morons could have paid someone for the same service I provided free of charge, then manners wouldn't really have been a factor.
As I sell vehicle repairs for a business, I guess I could have come with my work cap on & charged them mileage & triple time since it was Sunday.
When's the last time you were painting a fence & a tradesman painter you didn't know pulled up & gave you a hand just because he was a good cunt?

I am working hard on trying not to be offended by other people actions and attitudes, and life is so much more pleasant.

[98tls]

Most people you meet won't be like that.

Wish i could agree but....

[rocinante]

Well - I am grateful, at least. 42 km to the replacement cluch that is waiting for us. And the new front tyre is fun (Canterbury roads, not so much ... I am spoiled now).

[awayatc]

Canterbury..........

some places are nice to visit,

others great to get away from....

[Woodman]

nice idea but the normal MO here is the cable breaks right next to the nipple

And then the nipple falls out. Well it did on my bike in Greymouth a few months ago.

Nice work Unstuck.

[rocinante]

All fixed now. I think I also found out why the cable keeps on breaking. The hole that holds the barrel maybe got a little too much paint. The barrel nipple of the new one did not fully fit, so the barrel did not rotate at all. I guess that was the case before as well. So every time I used the clutch, the cable would be bend and straightened at the same point.

Got a new cluch lever as well and not the cable can rotate freely, even with the plastic spacer. Woohoo!!!

Oh, and good for my left hand. I was getting cramps because the temporary fix kept seizing up after a while and was really hard going.

All is well ...

[FJRider]

And then the nipple falls out. Well it did on my bike in Greymouth a few months ago.

Nice work Unstuck.

Quite a few years back ... the clutch cable on my GS1000 snapped in the middle on West coast nowhere. I replaced the inner cable with fence wire (well lubed) and "borrowed" from a nearby fence. It took about half an hour to rig .... and was still working fine three weeks later when I bought a new cable.

[unstuck]

All fixed now. I think I also found out why the cable keeps on breaking. The hole that holds the barrel maybe got a little too much paint. The barrel nipple of the new one did not fully fit, so the barrel did not rotate at all. I guess that was the case before as well. So every time I used the clutch, the cable would be bend and straightened at the same point.

Got a new cluch lever as well and not the cable can rotate freely, even with the plastic spacer. Woohoo!!!

Oh, and good for my left hand. I was getting cramps because the temporary fix kept seizing up after a while and was really hard going.

All is well ...

Awesome
All plain sailing now then, should be a more relaxed ride through the molesworth.

[unstuck]

was still working fine three weeks later when I bought a new cable.

Thought you were Irish, not scottish.

[FJRider]

Thought you were Irish, not scottish.

Mothers side was Scottish ...

[unstuck]

Mothers side was Scottish ...

So that would make you semi tight.

[FJRider]

So that would make you semi tight.

Moths take up more space in my wallet than money ...