Posted by daytripper@trippin.com on August 3, 2007, 2:54 am
Handfuls of cash on the bar. Brought a bag beer nuts too. Everyone help
yerself.
I'm buying chrome controls and cables for my '84 FXWG, collecting
everything piece by piece from eBay. Am having a hard time finding
throttle/idle cables @ 33" (stock length). The sets I come across are
always 6" over stock. (What's with all the 5 and 6-inch longer cables?
All for custom jobs?) My question is, how would 38-inch throttle/idle
cables look? I'm afraid they'd bow way out from the grip and look
stupid. I think I've seen bikes before with cables that were too long
and I wondered why they put them on ... I don't wanna be one of those
people. :) ... or would an extra 5-inches not be as dramatic as I'm
thinking?
DayTripper
'84 Shovel FXWG
'84 Dirt Thumper XR250R
Posted by hawgeye on August 3, 2007, 7:22 am
"DayTripper" wrote...
> Handfuls of cash on the bar. Brought a bag beer nuts too. Everyone help
> yerself.
What's so stupid looking about that?
> I'm buying chrome controls and cables for my '84 FXWG, collecting
> everything piece by piece from eBay. Am having a hard time finding
> throttle/idle cables @ 33" (stock length). The sets I come across are
> always 6" over stock. (What's with all the 5 and 6-inch longer cables?
> All for custom jobs?) My question is, how would 38-inch throttle/idle
> cables look? I'm afraid they'd bow way out from the grip and look
> stupid. I think I've seen bikes before with cables that were too long
> and I wondered why they put them on ... I don't wanna be one of those
> people. :) ...
Too late! It's not gonna look any worse than having all that chrome crap on
there anyway. Beuty is in the eye of the poser, I guess.
>or would an extra 5-inches not be as dramatic as I'm
> thinking?
Not even going there.
Seriously, having too long of cables could cause binding, especially with
some of those cheap aftermarket e-bay sales.
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Posted by AH#104 on August 3, 2007, 9:40 am
hawgeye sed:
<snip all the threads he's in>
Sheesh, come to ONE IRL and now yer all over the place giving advice!
ASSHOLE#104 Len
it's a good thang.
Posted by tripper@nospam.com on August 3, 2007, 7:42 pm
>> I'm buying chrome controls and cables for my '84 FXWG, collecting
>> everything piece by piece from eBay. [...]
>> My question is, how would 38-inch throttle/idle
>> cables look? I'm afraid they'd bow way out from the grip and look
>> stupid.
>Too late! It's not gonna look any worse than having all that chrome crap on
>there anyway. Beuty is in the eye of the poser, I guess.
My bike is an 84 as stated. "Chrome crap" is going to look a helluva lot
nicer than the stock crap that's on there now. Particularly the rusted
brake/throttle/idle hardware and the worn black controls.
>>or would an extra 5-inches not be as dramatic as I'm
>> thinking?
>Not even going there.
>Seriously, having too long of cables could cause binding, especially with
>some of those cheap aftermarket e-bay sales.
Glad to know... FTR though, I'm not buying cheap stuff but neither am I
wasting money on Biker Build Off parts. Barnett cables and Custom Chrome
controls, everything new in box/packaging. Just cheaper than the dealer.
Posted by LaJolla on August 3, 2007, 11:13 am
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:54:42 -0700, DayTripper
(daytripper@trippin.com) wrote:
>I'm buying chrome controls and cables for my '84 FXWG, collecting
>everything piece by piece from eBay. Am having a hard time finding
>throttle/idle cables @ 33" (stock length).
At the risk of stating the obvious... go buy them from a dealer.
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> yerself.