mak
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Long throttle cable! (and its so obvious)
Following my post of a couple of days ago, I could not find a bike shop that did (inner) cable off the roll, then went to a larger bike shop, 4 of
them discussed it among themselves where I could get a 3m cable, then one of them clicked, a tandem bike brake cable!! So obvious its annoying! 312 cm
long and £3.50. perfect.
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emsfactory
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 03:06 PM |
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Always the way.
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smart51
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 03:53 PM |
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A 3m long throttle cable? My whole car is only 3.3m long!
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Bob C
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 04:17 PM |
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I'd have a close look at the gear cables for indexed derailleurs - they must do 'em for tandems too - these can be got really smoothe
& easy running.
cheers
Bob
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gingerprince
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 05:13 PM |
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I had to replace my throttle cable this weekend after a friend sat in the car and thought "hmmm i wonder if this throttle cable goes all the way
to the floor.....SNAP!"
Didn't need a long one so got a standard cable from a bicycle shop, but later that day noticed that my local B&Q sold what appears to be the
same guage wire on a roll. So if you want 10 metres, 10 metres you could have!
My next step will be to make a rubber stop for behind the pedal
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mak
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 05:41 PM |
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Yeah it is a long throttle cable, mainly because it is a midi and i'm being careful to make all the curves gradual, ended up at 2.8m long.
A hint for the stop, make it STRONG.
Mark
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Simon
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| posted on 3/1/06 at 09:11 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gingerprince
I had to replace my throttle cable this weekend after a friend sat in the car and thought "hmmm i wonder if this throttle cable goes all the way
to the floor.....SNAP!"
I used a bit of 2mm steel rope to stop that very thing (Separate to throttle cable)
ATB
Simon
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NS Dev
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| posted on 4/1/06 at 08:33 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by mak
Following my post of a couple of days ago, I could not find a bike shop that did (inner) cable off the roll, then went to a larger bike shop, 4 of
them discussed it among themselves where I could get a 3m cable, then one of them clicked, a tandem bike brake cable!! So obvious its annoying! 312 cm
long and £3.50. perfect.
now thats a bloody good idea!
Very useful on the grasser where the engine's behind me!
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