AA Breakdown/Recovery

[sherpatensing]

I had the misfortune to breakdown whilst using my 1952 AJS 500, with a broken throttle cable. The AA patrolman duly turned up 20 minutes after my call and I queried where the motorcycle trailer was, as he would not carry a spare cable. He then took off the twistgrip, found a small piece of drilled brass in his toolbox and soldered this on the cable. As we were a bit unsure how secure the soldered joint would be, he followed me home (about 10 miles) to make sure all was good. Pretty good service I think.

 

[Wapping]

Amazing but you seem to have announced this in the non-WC 1200 'technical' department.

 

[duckspeed]

Well it's good to hear good news so I say "Crack on Sir".

 

[sherpatensing]

Amazing but you seem to have announced this in the non-WC 1200 'technical' department.

Yes, as we already had an earlier thread regarding our experiences of the various breakdown/recovery companies, I thought this may be of interest to the contributors of that earlier thread. With hindsight, I perhaps should have found a more suitable section.

 

[MattW]

Good to hear that some breakdown patrols will still actually try and fix things rather than just tow you.
But I guess your AJS is the right bike for that sort of fix - I'd bet you wouldn't have been so fortunate with a 1200...

(See the effortless way I got the thread back on topic for the section? )

 

[duckspeed]

Seamless! Have you had specialist training?

 

[Bendy toy]

Bicycle gear cables do a great job for throttle cable inners on older bikes much smoother running than the stiff carbon steel originals. Soldering the end nipple needs the right solder flux.

 

[Greenman14]

I've been recovered by the RAC three times and by BMW also twice. My standard RAC cover only gives me 10 miles to the nearest dealer which was ok, but I was lucky. The BMW cover was much better: both incidents were some distance from civilisation and once the bike was at the dealer I was offered a taxi or a loan car to get home. I'm not sure if this cover is part of the extended warranty but however you get it it's excellent.