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So i've been riding my motorcycle for about a week and loving it. Wife is on the back and we are living in southern California (where the weather is always nice) pull up to a stop light, rev the engine alittle... Light turns green.. Pull the throttle hear a snap and throttle goes totally loose.

Turns out my throttle cables both broke. Since i have an 1982 honda it will take a week to get the part!!!

I hate seeing her just sit there i know she misses me =(

Josh

The only thing that comes to mind is WAAH!!!

I lucked out when my throttle cable snapped. The return cable was the one that snapped due to rust and the accelerator was still good though it would constantly cause the engine to flood. That was until I just separated the return cable and it ran just fine.

You should've went to BikeBandit.com to get that cable to you faster.

Or Z1 enterprises... I got my cables from them in like 2 days.

I tired to get them from bikebandit but they were like 20 bucks more!

I ordered them online but it seemed like all of them were going to take 10 days to get to me.

There was actually a shop here that had the accelerator cable in a warehouse but not the return. Also wanted me to pay like 45 bucks a cable.

Josh

My sugestion... go out to the garage... bike on the center stand, sit on it, twist the (non-functional) throttle and make vroom vroom sounds.... its better than nothing!

MrShake wrote:My sugestion... go out to the garage... bike on the center stand, sit on it, twist the (non-functional) throttle and make vroom vroom sounds.... its better than nothing!

I feel your pain. I can't even sit on mine right now and make vroom vroom noises; it's in several pieces in my garage right now, waiting for various new parts. AND the weather forecast is perfect this weekend. I'm crossing my fingers all goes well.

Godspeed to the fedex/UPS driver bringing you your new cable.

May they Arrive quickly!!

Good luck on your torn apart bike. Mines old so im hoping it doesn't keep having trouble. Of course at least right now i live in Souther California so every day is a riding day.

I feel your pain, my clutch cable gave up the ghost a week ago. Luckily I cut down my bike-less days to just 2.

man I havent riden in a week. I am afraid my maxed chain will break on me doing 65mph down the road and I dont want to deal with that possibility and dont have the $$$ to buy replacement chain/sprockets. Hopefully next week I will have the $$$.