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Events, Flockings, Rallies and Rides -> Short Stories - Tales from the road ... (New!)AZCactus - nr1 - Day to Rem... - 1 May Run
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Topic : Shift Arm Goes Down
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 satch1961 
Chaac
Reg. Date : 27/09/2013
Posts : 583
Location :  United States
Posted : 17 Nov 2013 - 00:52   Post title : Shift Arm Goes Down
 
The other night I get on 95 heading south and trying to juice it to move to the middle. Well noooo... I start redlining in 4rth gear and can't catch 5th after a couple of flicks with my left boot. My riding buddy behind me scoots up and passes me and opens his right arm wide as if to say "what's up?" So I pull over onto the shoulder in the pitch black night to see what happened. Turns out my shifter arm had collapsed and was dragging on the floor. The jamb nut had loosened so I was stuck in 4rth. I am now on the 95 shoulder with no light other than the headlights from trucks screaming by . All the time I am wondering how I can avoid becoming roadkill so I put on the parking lights. Better to drain the battery than become a pancake.
Earlier in the evening I had installed a pair of Kuryakyn foot pegs that have a higher profile so I adjusted the shifter arm to fit my boot. Obviously I didn't tighten the nut enough and I didn't use Locktight. What a dumbass. So I was on my ass trying to fit the shifter arm into the hole in the black of night. Like threading a needle in the dark without my reading glasses.
Anyways I find the hole and tighten the nut by hand - again - since I left my tools in the Saddleman bag I normally have but didn't have that night. So once I got going it turns out that my buddy had stopped about a mile ahead to wait. Luckily he had a #10 wrench and tightened me up.
The moral here is never leave home unprepared. Ya'll ride safe...

 
2010 1600 with 1700 cams; V4 custom tune; hi-flow filter; short TORS; rivco risers with spacers. Decat with elbows and baffles
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 mjgt 
Thor
Reg. Date : 16/09/2011
Posts : 2,201
Location : North Somerset, United Kingdom
Posted : 17 Nov 2013 - 09:23   Post title : Re: Shift Arm Goes Down (Re: satch1961)
 
we've all been there, glad it was an easy fix and you are safe.

 
Mick . . . Keep the rubber side down!!
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 satch1961 
Chaac
Reg. Date : 27/09/2013
Posts : 583
Location :  United States
Posted : 18 Nov 2013 - 14:16   Post title : Re: Shift Arm Goes Down (Re: mjgt)
 
Many thanks MJ. I don't leave home now without tools and Locktite.

 
2010 1600 with 1700 cams; V4 custom tune; hi-flow filter; short TORS; rivco risers with spacers. Decat with elbows and baffles
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 intimidator32 
Chaac
Reg. Date : 12/05/2012
Posts : 913
Location : lexington, ky, United States
Posted : 20 Nov 2013 - 10:13   Post title : Re: Shift Arm Goes Down (Re: satch1961)
 
and a flashlight. your tale makes me want to fit a tool bag for those times i ride without my saddlebags. glad your OK

 
currently on a slow Harley but will have another Triumph eventually
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