Hitchcocks Forum

Here is a pearl of wisdom chaps. Model electra x 2006 but can be used on many others. So after a 200+ miles trip including Hardnott pass and Wrynose pass and trawling through Lancaster we get to Ambleside and the bloody clutch cable stashes it. Only 4 months old this cable and english but as is the way it parted at the nipple.
We all will have this problem from time to time because its nigh on impossible to line up the cable for a straight pull so guess where it goes.
So when stuck with a cable parted at the lever wind in all the adjusters and strip back up to an inch of the outer find a m6 bolt and nut pass the now longer inner through the lever slot and bend it round the bolt then tighten the nut and bolt.Result yeaaaaah Im home and hitting the QC. Tomorrow im of to the local stockists for a brass bar to cut and drill with a countersunk hole to make soldered nipples that I can fit on the roadside using the exhaust pipe for heat and a length of fluxed solder in the toolkit

well done i must say that you forgot to mention the 2 flat m6 washers and you must have been at the Q.C this is the bikes for sale section!!!!!!! lmao

Why not just have a spare cable fitted alongside the one you are using held on with cable ties?, I have done this for years now and having a spare ensures that the cable never breaks,

I carry one of these, like carrying spare cable it seems to ensure cables do not snap http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNIVERSAL-MOT ... 2a280917ed

My best get you home trick is an AA card and a mobile phone!

Hello MIDGE....I take your point, but rather than have a bike standing around with Tax running out and not attracting any customers, it's easier just to SORN it then offer to get it Taxed for the winning bidder if that's what they want....If they have plans to do some work on it ( ie so it'll be off the road for a while longer) then the SORN option will suit them as well----- always remembering that SORN is NON-TRANSFERABLE..... Similarly with an MoT, but at least that's not aligned to the beginning of a calendar month.... Is this interest of yours a pre-amble to buying it then ?? LoL !! ("Special rates" for forum members)

-------OOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUPER TYPO !!! (Dammed "Drag, copy & Post went wrong) Hello MIDGE....THIS is what I meant to post }-------------- I also use that "tool" on occasion but just check how many times you can use it during the insurance year... I recently changed to Carole Nash as they were considerably cheaper than the rest BUT I can only use the recovery 4 times.... I don't mind as the cash saving was worth it anyway... but it pays to just check the small print now and then....

I guess I wrote too soon, I ran out of petrol today! With the better weather lately I've been getting some miles on it and cleanly forgot that its been a while since I put any fuel in! Luckily reserve got me the 15 miles back home with some still sloshing about in the bottom of the tank which makes me ask the question how many miles should one expect to get on reserve?