What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[marko67]

Spent a fruitless hour or two trying to find a choke cable in UnZud.....

 

Because - last time I was out on the bike it kept stalling when i stopped due to the choke cable mount having snapped right at the base of the thread where it goes into the triple clamp and the boingy boingy roads around here were slowly pulling the choke out. Don't ask how long it took me to find that.

 

Any hoo, went to start the bike today and saw the choke knob flopping about, had a wee cry when the memory of trying to JB weld it came back. That idea ranks right up there with chocolate fire guards. On the bright side the bike fired straight up but no way I could go boingy boingy until the choke mount is fixed. As per the first sentence it had to be fixed, summer starts officially in a few days and I've only got 6 months registration so I wasn't prepared to gamble on getting a new cable from Japan or the UK before May.

 

Plan B, how the hell too re-attach the thread to the choke knob mount? Cat stranglers, as much as I love them for heavy engineering applications, are no good. Lots of duct tape, same, not enough sticky grippy. Then I had a NASA level idea, melt it back together, who cares if it looks like a badger turd if it works, eh?

 

Just to give it some more sticky grippy I made a wee o-ring out of irrigation pipe and melted that sucker around it, too.

 

Currently the blob is tied up vertical and I've got about 500ml of oil running down the cable, some might even go down the tube. Fingers crossed it all stays together and the lube lubes.

 

If you're wondering about the melty melty heat source I just asked my girlfriend to get really close to it and question it's masculinity. I dragged her away before it ignited.