SCOTLAND/DUMBARTON help!! emergency clutch cable for 1100gs

Paulbee

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Hi,

I am on a trip to Scotland and my clutch cable has snapped. I am in Dumbarton. Two really nice guys have helped me get the bike to a bike school for the night. Does anyone know where I can get a clutch cable and get it fitted. Tried Douglas Park but they say they will have to order one from Germany and James Sherlock is giving me the ansa machine. Help!!

If you can help or know who I could contact then give me a call or text on 07964018901

Thanks

Paul
 
Paul, I've changed the title of your thread to attract a wider/more relevant viewer ........ whether they'll help a biker from south of the border these days or not I don't know:D
 
Are you positive it is just the cable and not the dodgy original lever arm that the cable pulls against. They do have a tendancy to snap. Mine went a couple of years back and has been replaced with the steel aftermarket version.
 
That's a bit of a bugger. A couple of things strike me. First off, the 1100GS clutch cable is similar to ones used on a lot of bikes, so you might be able to get one that will fit/can be bodged to fit from another brand of bike from a dealer in Glasgow. The other thing you can do if you're handy (or you might even get the RAC man to do this for you, I once did) is make up a temporary one by hard soldering a barrel onto the end of a bit of bowden cable.
 
A quick update. I can't thank everyone enough for contacting me and helping. Alan came out to help me and several people have called and offered help and support. Pat from Loch Lomond Motorbike Training put my bike in his van and took me to his yard and then drove me up to Rowardennan lodge where I am booked in for the night. David B has a clutch cable but can't get to me till Sunday am and looks like the hostel is booked out tomorrow. If anyone gets this and has a clutch cable / knows how to fit it.....I will be here till tomorrow around noon. David checked on motorworks and it can be a clutch cable for 1100RT / 1100R / 850R.

I do have national recovery (I have now discovered!) so if all else fails I can get back to Sheffield, but if I can get a cable and get it fitted then I can continue on or ride home. I really can't thank people for their help and kindness both on this forum and others that the message has been reposted to.

Thanks

Paul
 
I may have an 11RT cable in the lock up. IF it is merely the cable that's the problem, this one should fit? If someone can get it to you tomorrow, you can have it. (Sorry. Have rellies staying so cannot bring it over.). Will check tm early and let you know if I have it. Meantime, suggest you double check that it is just the cable and not the actuating arm.
 
In a previous lifetime, I worked for The AA.
All Patrols used to carry universal cable repair kits, and I know the RAC guys did as well.

I've also seen them for sale in places like Heine Gericke and in decent bike acessory shops.

Online (and I know this doesn't help you right now) they're dead cheap......I still have most of a couple of old kits scattered around various tool boxes and rolls I use:


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The point of this is, try calling a couple of larger bike shops....or maybe calling the AA or RAC if you have membership (or approach a patrol bearing a doughnut, that often works :D)

The Universal kits, as you can see from piccy above, are just a cut-to-length cable with an assortment of nipple ends, which you attach with a grub screw (I used to carry a small solder heating pot, or a teaspoon will do......attach correct niple with grub screw then melt solder in pot or on a spoon, dip nipple into molten solder, allow to penetrate a CM or so up the cable, cool, file clean, fit.)

If you don't get sorted by halfway through tomorrow (saturday) and you can find a push bike shop, they do brake cables of all lengths and ending in various nipples......you could bodge a working cable up out of one of those and something to terminate it with.....a small wire clamp (B&Q, Tool shops, chandlers, fencing suppliers etc etc) )
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A large amperage chocblock connector (melt the plastic off) :nenau
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Whatever.....ending the cable should be well within the grasp of imagination and bodgewittery.......think outside the box a little and I'm sure you can get sorted :thumb2
 
Paulbee said:
Thanks. That really helps. Definitely the clutch cable. Where are you?
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Ok. I have a new, spare cable. It will definitely fit your GS. Can you get through to Edinburgh or can some one bring it over to you? As explained, Sod's law, I am busy today or would nip through.
 
i am a work today i might have my old cable kicking about in te shed will check wheb i get home about 8 pm today

where are you in dumbarton
 
It's also a very good idea to change the little brass bush that the cable goes through in the lever.
 
Fanum said:
In a previous lifetime, I worked for The AA.
All Patrols used to carry universal cable repair kits, and I know the RAC guys did as well.

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The point of this is, try calling a couple of larger bike shops....or maybe calling the AA or RAC if you have membership (or approach a patrol bearing a doughnut, that often works :D)
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This really works. i have done it a few times to many bikes.
Use 2 mm cable.

Pekka
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to thank you all again for your advice and offers of help. Incredible support. Big thanks to Neil, Scottboxer and David B again for the offer of a clutch cable and help fitting. Alan came out to Rowardennan at 730 on Saturday morning with his clutch repair kit and, with bit of jiggers poker and more than a few midges, repaired he clutch cable at both ends and I was on my way again. A good solid repair that got me up to the Cairngorms via Fort William and some superb roads (thanks for the tips Alan!!)and then through Glenshee and the borders and Northumbria before I hit the A1M and the GS engine died on the outside lane about 75mph! I was lucky to be able to free wheel it off before getting splatted and then called MCE to recover me. Took 2 vans but I got home about midnight.

Bike has electrics but no response when I try to turn it over. Still has clock but no fuel/temp gauge or gear indicator so hoping just a fuse...rather than something more serious! !

Superb few days which would not have been possible without the support of people on here and on the ground in Scotland who made this possible. It is a trip I have wanted to do for years.
Thank you!!

Paul
 
Paulbee said:
Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to thank you all again for your advice and offers of help. Incredible support. Big thanks to Neil, Scottboxer and David B again for the offer of a clutch cable and help fitting. Alan came out to Rowardennan at 730 on Saturday morning with his clutch repair kit and, with bit of jiggers poker and more than a few midges, repaired he clutch cable at both ends and I was on my way again. A good solid repair that got me up to the Cairngorms via Fort William and some superb roads (thanks for the tips Alan!!)and then through Glenshee and the borders and Northumbria before I hit the A1M and the GS engine died on the outside lane about 75mph! I was lucky to be able to free wheel it off before getting splatted and then called MCE to recover me. Took 2 vans but I got home about midnight.

Bike has electrics but no response when I try to turn it over. Still has clock but no fuel/temp gauge or gear indicator so hoping just a fuse...rather than something more serious! !

Superb few days which would not have been possible without the support of people on here and on the ground in Scotland who made this possible. It is a trip I have wanted to do for years.
Thank you!!

Paul
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Epic! :D

The short wiring
loom from the ignition switch may be broken
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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