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PostPosted: 09:47 - 26 Apr 2022    Post subject: Throttle Locks Anyone Used One? Reply with quote

And if so any recommendations?
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PostPosted: 19:12 - 26 Apr 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had one, and its certainly worth the 30-whatever-quid for use as a temporary lock sort of thing, you know, if you go into town for half an hour, or want to pop to the supermarket. Just something to put immediate thieves off. I was using it as one of a series of deterrents.

But somehow the bike got knocked over and the barrel of the lock came away from the inside, it was a bit of a fucker to get the key in for a while and eventually, of course, it jammed up, and I had to get a mate to angle grind the thing off.

I'd have another.
But like I say, I'm in the Moar Security camp... because London.
Dunno what brand it was. It was bright yellow.
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PostPosted: 03:49 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought you meant throttle lock like simple cruise control.
I have had several and they are great to use on a clear stretch just so you can give your right hand a break for a few second.
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

gt alex wrote:
I thought you meant throttle lock like simple cruise control.
I have had several and they are great to use on a clear stretch just so you can give your right hand a break for a few second.

There are several styles. Throttlemeister is a well known design that imitates your bar end weights. Rotate the right side bar end weight counterclockwise to hold the throttle in place, roll it forward to release. You can adjust the tension so the throttle is not literally locked in place, but held in the position by friction. They are a bit on the expensive side at 100 quid or more.
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PostPosted: 16:35 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was thinking wrist relief on long rides type of thing too
the kind of thing pictured below .
Simple and cheap £12.99 for this one but similar can found cheaper
the Honda Atlas one on Ebay for £137 is a piss take
You only need them on say long motorway runs to relax your hand for a while

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/G8YAAOSw5d5fbZb5/s-l1600.jpg
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

That Throttlemeister
Talk about over priced and over engineered !
this one's for a Burgman for well over £100
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IFIAAOSwuXxh4CqT/s-l1600.jpg

Bloody limp wristed faggoty assed pansy scooter riders!
they ought to taken out and sh.....
Oh...

Err...

Ah...
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use throttle rocker. It was on amazon uk too.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Throttle-Rocker-Original-Aztec-Cargo/dp/B00D46P06G/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3A3VMW1F8PFXH&keywords=throttle+rocker&qid=1651425259&s=automotive&sprefix=throttle+rocker%2Cautomotive%2C316&sr=1-5]throttle rocker
But it's £18.84
Similar ones with cheaper price will do the same job.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=throttle+rocker&i=automotive&crid=3A3VMW1F8PFXH&sprefix=throttle+rocker%2Cautomotive%2C316&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
This type rotate only forward. So if you go on motor way you'll need to rotate foward a bit, after motor way you rotate forward once and adjust again for nomal road.
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PostPosted: 18:43 - 01 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
Bloody limp wristed faggoty assed pansy scooter riders!
they ought to taken out and sh.....
Oh...

Err...

Ah...


Me thinks this Italian lass disagrees with you! Cool
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PostPosted: 14:43 - 02 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobody ever heard of the 'O-ring' method? Can't get much more cheap and cheerful than that...
https://faq.f650.com/FAQs/ThrottleRockerFAQ.htm

(By the way, to all those responding, the OP still hasn't been back to enlighten us whether he's after an aftermarket cruise control or a security device... Rolling Eyes )
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 02 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

O ring?
we couldn't afford O rings when I were a lad !

We used to jam a bit of clothes line around the grip

All fields. jerseys for goal posts and all that.
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 02 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

gt alex wrote:
I thought you meant throttle lock like simple cruise control...


Sorry, yes - that's what I meant. A cruise control thingy.
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PostPosted: 20:35 - 02 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find the one piece plastic cruise control that you rest the bottom of your hand works on well enough. If you want cheaper just move your switchgear to the right until it binds slightly on the bar end, just remember it wont snap shut if you let go and it wont pass MOT like that.
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PostPosted: 05:27 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
O ring?
we couldn't afford O rings when I were a lad !

We used to jam a bit of clothes line around the grip

All fields. jerseys for goal posts and all that.


Jerseys? Jerseys?

We couldn't afford jerseys in my day.

We had to use heaps of dog shite fert goal posts and pissed lines in t' sand to mark out t' field.
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PostPosted: 05:32 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

DJP wrote:
gt alex wrote:
I thought you meant throttle lock like simple cruise control...


Sorry, yes - that's what I meant. A cruise control thingy.


Billy Connolly ended up being run over by a fucking chopper trike when he crossed the Route 66 on a Harley.
Had to get his bike jacket cut off by paramedics.

Fucking stupid things. They're not fitted by th OEM cause they are a daft liability.

I've been riding bikes for filing years and never thought to fit a throttle cruise thingy.
One of my bikes does have an electronic cruise control though.
They are handy but only if safe.
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PostPosted: 08:17 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

DJP wrote:
gt alex wrote:
I thought you meant throttle lock like simple cruise control...


Sorry, yes - that's what I meant. A cruise control thingy.


I have one on my BMW, but i don't like it.
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PostPosted: 08:19 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:


Jerseys? Jerseys?

We couldn't afford jerseys in my day.

We had to use heaps of dog shite fert goal posts and pissed lines in t' sand to mark out t' field.


We used to use a squashed tin can as a football, used a stone too.
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PostPosted: 12:25 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skudd wrote:
DJP wrote:
A cruise control thingy.
I have one on my BMW, but i don't like it.

I have one too (ie, an OEM electronic one) and I have to say that at my age (and using a bike mainly for reasonably long rides)j, I now literally don't think I'd even consider buying a bike without it. Not out of laziness but for the ability to regularly take my right hand off the throttle to flex my fingers, to stay comfortable all day.
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PostPosted: 15:14 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Freddyfruitbat wrote:
Not out of laziness but for the ability to regularly take my right hand off the throttle to flex my fingers, to stay comfortable all day.


Wait a gawd fearing minute...

Who T F takes their hand off the throttle when riding a motorcycle?

I only do that when I get to where I was going to. Cool

You maybe need to rethink your polarities Pal.

Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:04 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

virus wrote:
I find the one piece plastic cruise control that you rest the bottom of your hand works on well enough.


Yeah I just got some of these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174867921397

It's not cruise control but it does take the strain off your hand on motorways etc., they're a couple of quid and you can take it off in a few seconds if you don't get on with it.
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PostPosted: 16:16 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't need to take your hand off the throttle to flex your fingers... If you do, you're holding on too tight in the first place.

Never had an issue with hands/wrists TBH, only time I've ever wished I had cruise control was on my Gixxer sitting for hours on the highway - would have been nice to stand up to get some blood back in my legs/feet.
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 03 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

xX-Alex-Xx wrote:
Don't need to take your hand off the throttle to flex your fingers... If you do, you're holding on too tight in the first place.

Sure, I get what you're saying but it's also wrists, hands in general etc. I got by with previous bikes but have to say that my first machine with cruise control is a revelation to me
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PostPosted: 08:38 - 04 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've used this in the past (still fitted actually but broken).

https://www.bikermart.co.uk/prodimages/bikeit-motorcycle-cruise-control-l.jpg


It was handy whilst it lasted, but it's just plastic after all and I removed part of it because it just was intefering with throttle control. Obviously if you lube up the ring, then the thing won't work at all as it runs through friction (when applied).

Anyway. I just use cramp buster now, and whilst on long motorway runs, just adjust the cramp buster a bit.
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PostPosted: 08:27 - 05 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lazy bastirts.
This thread reminds me of the Triumph Rat forum.

Mostly Muricans on Trumpets.

Some of the shit they went on about was amusingly crazy.
My favourite of bike accoutrements was 'Mirror Extensions'. To enable Big Fat Bastirts to use rear view mirrors.
Shocked

Another Murican forum but for BMW R1200GS bikes I perused briefly (looking for fuel pump and tank level sender) Some cnut had fabridoodled and fitted his own homemade reserve fuel tank from stainless steel plate.
It was a decent fab job too for an amateur.
It involved hacking a 2nd 4" dia hole in the side of the existing tank to connect his aux tank which was about 18" high by 12" square, bolted to the rear seat area and luggage rack.
Great job.
I just wondered who the fuck wants to sit on a boke for over 400 miles.
Unless he was one of those vlogger pricks who rides out through the wilderness.

He must have ran out of gas out there and perished in the dust though, as I never seen another post by him.

Sometimes a problem doesnt exist in reality and only in one's mind.
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PostPosted: 11:05 - 05 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:

He must have ran out of gas out there and perished in the dust though, as I never seen another post by him.


We all know how it ended...

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PostPosted: 18:54 - 05 May 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote

xX-Alex-Xx wrote:
Don't need to take your hand off the throttle to flex your fingers... If you do, you're holding on too tight in the first place.

Never had an issue with hands/wrists TBH, only time I've ever wished I had cruise control was on my Gixxer sitting for hours on the highway - would have been nice to stand up to get some blood back in my legs/feet.



You obviously havent done long distance work on an IL4 with slide carbs, even with a perfectly routed brand new cable you still need to hold the twistgrip relatively tightly to keep it open.
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