| Not me this time but a mate of mine from way back who shall remain nameless; OK Stan the man, decided he was going to make himself a mechanical cruise control. Very easy to do.
He drilled and tapped a small hole in the top of the throttle/twistgrip body and threaded a winged nut in it. Then when on the move he just opened the throttle to the required speed and nipped up the cable/twist grip inside the handlebar body with the winged nut.
So, on ride outs where we had to do a bit of M-way work he'd use this device. We'd all be two hands on and he'd be croooooozing along throttle hand on hip nodding his head like Mussolini.
Anyway, one particular time we'd decided to get back earlier so wound it on a bit and settled in at around 105.
Stan's there hand on hip, lording it up when we came across backed up traffic. We all shut the throttle and slowed down; Stan on the other hand hurtled on panicking like mad as he couldn't get he cruise control nut off.
When he did manage to stop having barrelled down the middle of these lines of cars, we caught up as he was throwing the winged cruise control nut into the far distance.
What had happened was, at 105 the recess where the throttle cable ball-end goes, neatly lined up with his cruise nut, so when he tightened the nut it bit into that recess and so could be undone with 1/2 a turn. It took more like 3 turns which with two hands on one side of the handlebars at 105mph is a pretty neat trick. Well we thought so.
It was bloody hilarious watching him though.
Ains.
[Edited on 5-3-2006 by Ains.]  | 
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