HELP!Buellers... anyone...

[buellbabe]

Just got to work... parked the bike, kicked it into neutral and the freaking toe-piece broke off the gear shift! F**K! What the hell do I do? I have a spare but its at home...(thru town and then 30kms of motorway ) and how do I get the bike home since I am unable to change gears??? I'm hoping AMPS might come and pick it up for me but they won't take it all the way home and they are notoriously useless when it comes to stocking "essential" parts...(sorry Lou but they ARE!) Has anyone been in this situation? The 'arm thingy' is still there, its just the actual little shifter toe-piece thats parted company... the damn thing is snapped clean off, I honestly can't see how I can do gear changes...
AAaaargh!

[Dooly]

Are you close to a garage or engineers, who could maybe just temporary weld a piece on for you to change gears to get home before you get a new shifter?
Thats what I'd try first, if stuck.

[buellbabe]

I'm in the viaduct... think I may have come up with a solution. Thanks to my mates at work I am gonna borrow someones car, go home and get my spare "after-market" part and bring it back to work along with allen keys and an adjustable wrench... Got to take the footpeg off and I'm hoping that bolt isn't gonna be a mission! If I have no joy then I'll give AMPS a call and turn on the charm... actually they are always pretty good to me so if needs be I reckon they will come to the party...
1 thing for sure is that I'm not putting the standard part back on, my "after-market' is gonna be a permanent fixture now!

[Two Smoker]

If that fails do the old bolt trick, drill out the current gear lever to 6mm then put a m6 bolt through with a nut on both sides of the gear lever... and wahey you have a gear lever... but a bit of fuel hose on and its like brand new...

[buellbabe]

Good idea... we've got constuction guys in at work at the mo so they may have suitable tools... from memory tho when the ex did that to one off his buell awhile ago it was a total bi-atch to drill!
Gonna try Plan A first...
Cheers :-)

[buellbabe]

Change of plans... the Constuction guys next door were more than willing to lend whatever tools they could and my workmate (who is also a biker) insisted on having a go with the drill.Woohoo!!!! Drilled out and now we are off on an expedition to get a bolt and a couple of nuts!!!!! Just love Kiwi ingenuity and willingness to help.
Shucks... I'm feeling all gooey...
Thanx

[Two Smoker]

Change of plans... the Constuction guys next door were more than willing to lend whatever tools they could and my workmate (who is also a biker) insisted on having a go with the drill.Woohoo!!!! Drilled out and now we are off on an expedition to get a bolt and a couple of nuts!!!!! Just love Kiwi ingenuity and willingness to help.
Shucks... I'm feeling all gooey...
Thanx

Glad i could help You can do it with one nut if you can slide the bolt in from the engine side of the geara lever...

[buellbabe]

Yep yr suggestion worked a treat!
My mate Dave and I have just returned from Placemakers Cook Str with a bolt, washers and nuts. Got the rubber off the old one and I now have a new toe-piece that looks just like a bought one.
Parts = $6
Labour = $0 but I will definately be buying Dave a beer or 2
Good to go!!!

Really tho, don't ya reckon the stock part sux? I have an "after -market" shifter that is stainless (so it bends, doesn't break) and the toe-piece screws on... gonna be putting that on tonight... depending how many beers I have with Dave...

Oh and in case yr wondering why I don't have the Stainless jobbie on already??? Well the toe-piece is silver and it keeps leaving a big mark on my flash boots so I had taken it off with a view to sorting that and well...
All that aside I am abit disgusted at the WEAKness of the standard part... ok so it has dragged on the tarmac abit but surely that shouldn't cause it to weaken and snap off??? Maybe I just had a dud...

Oh well I am happy again...

[Two Smoker]

All that aside I am abit disgusted at the WEAKness of the standard part... ok so it has dragged on the tarmac abit but surely that shouldn't cause it to weaken and snap off??? Maybe I just had a dud...

Nah it wasnt a dud... because they are cast aluminium they are very brittle... Its common with a lot of bikes... Same as brake and clutch levers.. Very brittle, and snap easily...

Glad it worked out for you And it was a cheap too!!!

[sAsLEX]

Its a tractor would of been fine starting in second or third and using one gear the whole way home!

Glad to hear you fixed it other wise.

[buellbabe]

Nah it wasnt a dud... because they are cast aluminium they are very brittle... Its common with a lot of bikes... Same as brake and clutch levers.. Very brittle, and snap easily...

So why do manufacturers continue to use parts like this? And yeah I have snapped afew brake and clutch levers over the years... my current brake levers front and rear are aftermarket stainless jobbies...

[sAsLEX]

So why do manufacturers continue to use parts like this? And yeah I have snapped afew brake and clutch levers over the years... my current brake levers front and rear are aftermarket stainless jobbies...

Easy to make, and maybe its better that these relativaley cheap parts sacrifice them selves rather than making the bike flip when they dig in to the tarmac etc


plus I would rather they snap than impaling me as I tumble around with the bike.

[WRT]

HELP!Buellers... anyone...

Was this a parody of Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

The Economics Teacher, "anyone, anyone . . . Bueller?"

PS - Glad you got it sorted.

[T.W.R]

An emergency fix that works for the oh shit moments when a gear lever peg parts company on any bike is a 6mm - 8mm allen key strapped to the lever shaft by 2 small hose clamps

looks rough but does the job

[vifferman]

Oh and in case yr wondering why I don't have the Stainless jobbie on already??? Well the toe-piece is silver and it keeps leaving a big mark on my flash boots so I had taken it off with a view to sorting that and well...

Should be easy to sort that! Either put a piece of plastic or rubber tubing over it, or if you can find a gearlever rubber thingo (technical term) the right size, buy one and stick that on, or you could put a piece of heatshrink tube over it and shrink-fit it on, then another over the top.