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- From: laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth)
- Subject: Re: reliability
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183356.8310@colorado.edu>
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- References: <b2k002Ot32jB01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1993Jan18.160015.18238@walter.cray.com> <2139@admin.mport.COM> <1993Jan20.230029.11630@twg.com> <viking.727600290@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:33:56 GMT
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- In article <viking.727600290@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- |> In <1993Jan20.230029.11630@twg.com> rwalls@twg.com (Roger Walls) writes:
- |>
- |> >Why on this short of a ride (>5 miles) did they have a van/truck to sweep
- |> >the course for broken vehicles? Is the reliability of the Harleys bad enough
- |> >to warrent a pick-up vehicle?
-
- with a large amount of bikes SOMETHING has to happen. like for the
- ride'n'feed my bike wasn't even cold and people where parting it out.
-
- |> Speaking of which, I met a guy in a Hardees parking lot last August.
- |> Poor guy had ridden from Florida to make Sturgis, and was on his way back.
- |> He broke the clutch cable while pulling in for food in Denison, Iowa. Not
- |> a Harley dealer for 100 miles, and only a Honda shop that wouldn't open for
- |> two days. I gave him a pair of vice grips, we cut the cable housing, ran the
- |> cable through the hole in the lever, and used the vice grip to keep it from
- |> pulling back through. Five days later I got my vice grips in the mail,
- |> with a note of thanks. He had ridden on to Des Moines, got a new cable,
- |> and mailed mine back to me when he got home. Would you say his Sportster
- |> was unreliable because it broke a clutch cable?
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- am i wierd or just stupid? when i brake a clutch cable i just sync
- shift till i get to a shop that is on my way to where i'm going
- (ie its no biggy deal). if i where doing a highway trip i wouldn't
- think twice about going to the next "big" town.........of course
- throttle cables & gears are a whole nother story (and they are the
- one thing on a bmw that i freely admit bmw FUCKED up).
-
- laz
-