Throttle cable

[Vegan]

Was on the way to work this afternoon and my throttle just stops working - there was a release in pressure like a snap in the cable - not major - but the grip just turns round and round - what do I need to do to fix this? A Throttle cable? and how hard are they to do?

[Ixion]

Yup, sounds like yr throttle cable broken . Unless you're mecho inclined means buy a new one. Fitting ranges from a 5 minute doddle on an old Briddish bike and some modern ones , to a days raging screaming hard yakka pulling fairings tanks and half the rest of the bike off, and wriggling hands into impossibly inaccessible crannies, getting hands stuck, extracting hands less large amounts of skin, more swearing and jumping up and down taking the name of Karl Benz in vain .

Usually not too hard though, justy a matter of undoing the clamp together bit of the twistgrip , hooking the new cable in, and feeding it through to wherever the other end is, and hooking the far end onto the carby .

[Vegan]

Seems like these cables are rare as hens teeth at the moment - but i've sourced a new one - $70. And although I haven't looked at my Haynes manual yet, the guy I spoke to (who was a self confessed VFR400 nut evidently) seemed to think it was a fairly simple exercise, and from memory the Haynes ,manual only rates it at 2 Spanners - so should hopefully be a breeze...

[sAsLEX]

should be simple, I reckon anyways, let us know how it goes

[Vegan]

Yep fairly simple - all done now- problem was the new cable - it was slightly different to the old one and the nuts were hitting something - but sorted that out and I had it done in about 2 hours (i had to go and buy a wrench because I left mine at home) - but could easily be done in an hour or less I reckon.