It was too damm nicer day to leave the CX on its stand even if the weather people were trying to tell me it was going to turn to crap. decided to go for a wee cruise to Wanganui - couldn't have been better - the sun was beaming and was no wind. Arrived at Wanganui rolled up set of lights, went to pull away and ---NOTHING -- an engine full of idle and no response from the right hand grip. Muttered some phrases that might have been something along the lines of "oh gosh" , parked up and pulled out the tool kit. A bit of dismantling found cable had broken at the end in the hand grip. After a bit of mucking around and muttering of more phrases managed to form a sort of loop which I was able to hook onto the grip except I now couldn't clamp the hand grip back on so it was free to move around on the handlebar and even come off. If I twisted around to Idle too far the loop would come off the hook and giving it a twisting the other way caused to loop to start to come undone. In all the trip home was interesting, the whole episode tending to spoil a most excellent afternoon.
The joys of owning a older model bike I guess. Anyway It should have cooled down by now -better get to fixing it for next weekend.
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Originally Posted by Headbanger
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