Throttle Safety
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Tourer
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From: Portland Oregon
RE: Throttle Safety
Thanks everyone for the tips, opinions and help here....I will try them all and see if maybe I have picked up on some bad riding habits. Also I may try another dealer and check the cables too.
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From: Edmonton Alberta Canada
RE: Throttle Safety
An additional or stronger spring would only add pre load tension and end up tiring out your hand on long trips.
What about re-routing the throttle cables in such a way as to reduce the radius of one of more of the bends in the cables, the tighter radius bends in the cables will add resistance to the throttle action without increasing pre load spring tension.
The disadvantage to tight cable radius bends is it does reduce the life of the cable but that would be a small price to pay for your comfort and safety.
Try operating the throttle while someone holds the cables in a tight bend and see if it feels tighter, if so a couple of zip ties at strategic spots may do the trick.
What about re-routing the throttle cables in such a way as to reduce the radius of one of more of the bends in the cables, the tighter radius bends in the cables will add resistance to the throttle action without increasing pre load spring tension.
The disadvantage to tight cable radius bends is it does reduce the life of the cable but that would be a small price to pay for your comfort and safety.
Try operating the throttle while someone holds the cables in a tight bend and see if it feels tighter, if so a couple of zip ties at strategic spots may do the trick.
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From: Heart of Missouri
RE: Throttle Safety
Might try rolling the bar or the grip forward or back towards you so that your hands are in a more relaxed position, and maybe not squeeze so tight. My wife's sportsterthrottle kept sticking this past weekend. I made some adjustments and it helped but service time is due and going to let themlook at it.
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From: Portland Oregon
RE: Throttle Safety
More great ideas from you all, I really appreciate it. The cable radius is a quick one to try out and I will do that. I guess I just want to be comfortable when I ride and not have to worry about such things as cornering and stopping. Like all of us out bikes start out usually as project piece and we fine tune them to our likes until we get them where we are comfortable and enjoy riding them. The biggest comfort I did was add the Mustang Seat and grips. The biggest performance was the race tuner, SE, and SS V&H pipes. A few months ago I added the Q/R HD windshield and my ride is just about complete. I plan on adding saddle bags someday. You all can see some of my bike history at;
http://www.motorcycle-journal.com/forum/harley-d/
Just scroll down through my posts and I have added lots of pics.
I hope to have my wife take the MSF course the summer.
Thanks again for all your help folks.
http://www.motorcycle-journal.com/forum/harley-d/
Just scroll down through my posts and I have added lots of pics.
I hope to have my wife take the MSF course the summer.
Thanks again for all your help folks.
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From: Edmonton Alberta Canada
RE: Throttle Safety
I mentioned this to a friend last night and he said he had a similar problem years ago and his fix was to put an elastic band between the throttle housing and the part of the grip that rotates, gave just enough drag when he moved the throttle to keep it from being jumpy. He said he had to experament a bit with the elastic to get just the right amount of resistance and still have the spring be able to bring it back to idle by it's self.
Might be worth a try.
Might be worth a try.
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From: Fugitive from justice
RE: Throttle Safety
Sporties have two throttle positions- "On" and "Off".
Anything in between is reserved for Geezers.
I'm a Geezer and I own both a Sporty and a Geezer Glide, so I know these things.
Anything in between is reserved for Geezers.
I'm a Geezer and I own both a Sporty and a Geezer Glide, so I know these things.
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From: East Central Illinois
RE: Throttle Safety
I have replaced grips on several different bikes. Sportsters, dynas, sloptails etc.. and have never had the throttle respond differently after they were put on. If the adjusters were put back to the correct spot there should be no difference. Does the grip itself feel loose on the bars? Some grips require a sleeve to go on before the grip because the grip is larger diameter than the stock ones. If your grips are larger than stock they may not be contacting the barthe full length of the gripcausing them to feel loose because of the lack of resistance. Just my 2cents.
