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It's the best weather we've had for quite awhile so I thought I'd take a run today.I had a 70km run on Monday but it was still pretty chilly.Anyway,just as I got going out of town the throttle cable snapped.Luckily it happened about 4 km from the local bike shop.They came and picked me and the bike up took it back to the shop. The bad news is it's $135 for the throttle cables and it's coming from Melbourne,plus $15 express freight which still means it'll be the weekend [when the weather forecast is for rain again ],before it's fixed 
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Re: Throttle Cable snapped
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Triumphs discrimanation pricing of parts to Aussies strikes again. I feel for you Paul. At least you weren't stuck in the whoop whoops.
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Re: Throttle Cable snapped
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Should be Riding
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they couldn't just put a new cable in the casing and attach new barrel ends? that happened to me before and I had a dealer do that for about 10 bucks
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they should have been able to rig something up for you easy if its a bike shop.
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Re: Throttle Cable snapped
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Joined: Aug 2007
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Should be Riding
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Should be Riding
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that's the problem with shops anymore, no mechanics just part changers
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Re: Throttle Cable snapped
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Check Pants
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Re: Throttle Cable snapped
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Joined: Jun 2010
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Adjunct
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just use the push cable as the pull for the weekend. i had to do that on a trip recently. rode from utah to los angeles on one cable.
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