Kingfish
100 MW
Ahhh! 8)
It’s a nice spring day, yer out playing hooky from the day job off on some errand. As you approach an intersection the car up ahead takes a bit longer to make that right-turn than anticipated, so you swing out wide to the left overtaking that car. Though as you enter the intersection an oncoming car is a little aggressive wanting to make a left turn across your bow, so you pull sharply on the throttle right to correct and weave neatly passed like thread through a needle when…
A new challenge! The throttle grip comes off completely from the handlebar, in disbelief it holding like a baton high in the air, leaving the controller suck at WOT, and flying through the intersection off-balance heading towards the curb with one hand on the tiller…
Thankfully, I’m left-handed and a quick-thinker and shoved the grip back onto the handlebar, pulling hard to the left and brought the machine to a coasting stop with the ebrake.
I figured out how to snap the grip back into place and determine the new throttle behavior out enough to nurse the bike home where there is a spare or two waiting.
Ever have that happen? I wonder if that counts against one of my nine lives?
I hereby declare the warrantee on these models to be good for one year. Mine’s been in use for 18-months although it has been acting flakey since the New Year. Ordered up a Magura 5K to try out; I hear they are more robust.
Lucky, KF
It’s a nice spring day, yer out playing hooky from the day job off on some errand. As you approach an intersection the car up ahead takes a bit longer to make that right-turn than anticipated, so you swing out wide to the left overtaking that car. Though as you enter the intersection an oncoming car is a little aggressive wanting to make a left turn across your bow, so you pull sharply on the throttle right to correct and weave neatly passed like thread through a needle when…
A new challenge! The throttle grip comes off completely from the handlebar, in disbelief it holding like a baton high in the air, leaving the controller suck at WOT, and flying through the intersection off-balance heading towards the curb with one hand on the tiller…
Thankfully, I’m left-handed and a quick-thinker and shoved the grip back onto the handlebar, pulling hard to the left and brought the machine to a coasting stop with the ebrake.
I figured out how to snap the grip back into place and determine the new throttle behavior out enough to nurse the bike home where there is a spare or two waiting.
Ever have that happen? I wonder if that counts against one of my nine lives?
I hereby declare the warrantee on these models to be good for one year. Mine’s been in use for 18-months although it has been acting flakey since the New Year. Ordered up a Magura 5K to try out; I hear they are more robust.
Lucky, KF