Clutch Cable

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Just be a little careful...

SOME modern cables have a teflon inner sleeve and you should not lube these cables. You must grease the pivots (at the lever and the clutch actuating arm) semi regularly....

If your cable is NOT teflon lined get one of those little aerosol spray can adaptors and lube it with lanisol or something (can't quite remember but cheap at super cheap ) NOT CRC....

If the outer sheath of the cable gets cracked and damaged then start saving for a new one.

If the cable frays at either nipple it's rooted. Replace it.

When you replace the cable, try to aim for a nice smooth arc and if possible follow the way the factory did it (unless they screwed up).

I know money is tight but I'd buy a new one, fix the old one and chuck it under the seat as a spare.

Cables are a moving part. Moving parts wear out, they do not last forever and neither do things like clutch levers etc etc....

Paul N

I did not know that, its a good day when you learn something new.

[vifferman]

Just wait until your ghey hydraulic clutch needs fixing ya smug bugger... You will be all "Oh waillie waillie why isn't this affordable like a good clutch cable"

heh heh...

I wasn't being smug. And while being largely maintenance-free, they do cause some consternation. On the FahrtingSturm, any removal of the countershaft cover meant feckking about with bleeding, repeated removal and replacement, bleeding, etc etc....
And there's no adjustment, apart from span of the lever.

Left hand pumped and oversized from a good clutch work out like a REAL biker should be...

You obviously haven't used many hydraulic clutches then, Paul.
Light action? Puhleeease....
Of the four I've had, the VifFerrari's is the lightest. It's a wonder the others haven't given me a forearm like a Popeye on a Spinach high...

[vifferman]

Funnily enough, I never broke a cable with the spare ready to go...

Of course not.
The EvilAndPerniciousBikerGodz and Murphy's Law would co-operate to ensure that never happened.

Then there's statistics. :sly:
Statistics would have it that 95% of what people worry about never actually eventuates. But, somehow, this combines with The EvilAndPerniciousBikerGodz and Murphy's Law and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to mean that if you worry about something happening, and plan for its occurrence, it will never happen.

At least until you've gone through the Feeling Smug stage, the Relief That It Didn't Actually Happen stage, and moved into the Oh! So I Didn't Need a Spare After All phase, forgotten all about it, then BAM!! (Or Wham!!, depending on your persuasion), Shit Happens.