That sucks, glad you made it home ok. I can not wait to see whats in there :) . I would have tired to ride home. It was all highway.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

It's funny the more i work on stuff the more i'm like this stuff isn't as dalting of a task as people make motorcycles out to be. Hey that's when the fun stories come in when your all gathered around the fire at night right?

Believe it or not, the same thing happened on my shovelhead over the weekend. Broke into peaces. Love it when that happens.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Yea but it's not a fun feeling though when your in town/traffic. Having to basically kill the bike to stop which i know isn't good on the tranny!

@SaddleTrampTV

2 ай бұрын

@@theadventurousrider I was only one exit over from the house, so it wasn't too bad.

@gomangoism

2 ай бұрын

"pieces"

When I was a kid I drove a British Morris Minor. One day my clutch linkage broke while I was out running around. I got home, traffic lights and all, by shifting on the move. I had learned where the gears synced up at different speeds so as I approached a stop light I'd down shift to first and brake to a stop in neutral. I'd kill the engine, put the car into first gear and wait for the light to change. When the light turned green I'd crank the starter and on starting I was already moving and driving in first gear. They were some really jerky starts though. I drove it like that for about a week until I had enough money to have the linkage welded back together.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Wow that crazy you drove it like that for over a week. Hopefully you didn't ever stop on a reverse incline! But you did what you had to do to get where you were going.

That's a bummer but it was good you were able to get back home okay to sort it out.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Part of riding these old bikes man. If your riding them they are going to have parts wear out!

Nice shop you have. Glad you made it back to Meridian. I too live in Meridian, ride a 07' Harley Davidson Fatboy.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Cool deal my cousin has one... You should get up with me sometime and go riding!

Hey, I've been to that Love's, that sucks, glad you made it home!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks man... I'm sure there aren't many of those truck stops around I20/I59 you haven't been to. Hope your ankle is healing up fine.

I ride an old Honda VTX for 15 years. Group rides, two up rides, long distance trips thru the mountains, high speed freeway ride. No clutch problems

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Well it is a Honda so I mean the reliability is there! Thanks for watching!

Glad you made it home

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks andy... hope you have a great trip as i know your about to leave out!! can't wait for the pictures/vidoes!

I guess your name is Adventurous Rider for a reason! 😂, glad you made it. 👍🏽

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

hahaha for more than one reason... LOL Thanks man.

@SaddleTrampTV

2 ай бұрын

That's right! Real adventures is when you're not sure of the future outcome. That's why I like to ride a 40 plus year old POS on roadtrips. Lol

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Exactly!! When all the good stories happen

Scariest part for me is if i can get it home.. lol good to see you did man

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

I was a little concerned as well but thankfully I knew I had someone who could come get me especially the closer i was able to get home.

Man... I hate getting broken down away from home. I have no idea what's broken, but good luck fixing it! I haven't ridden without a clutch, but I did ride my Vaquero home with half a clutch lever, after dumping it.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Yea it happens. It's back up and running now from what i can tell. I haven't gone very far to really test it out. That sucks you dumped it. Hopefully wasn't too much of a repair bill.

@RoadReality

2 ай бұрын

@@theadventurousrider LOL, that accident was over $7,000 in damage to the bike. It pirouetted one way, flipped over and pirouetted the other. Luckily, it slid further than I did :D Glad you're up and running again - I hope it stays that way!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

wow sounds like you got really lucky. hate it was so much in damages. did they total it out?

@RoadReality

2 ай бұрын

@@theadventurousrider I DID get lucky! I did a video on it, but the gist is that I wasn't wearing much for gear, and ended up with barely any bumps & bruises. The bike was NOT totaled out - although I think it probably should've been. Any time a bike is in an accident, the tiniest scratch results in a replacement part, and the fairing on a Vaquero shows up from Kawasaki painted, for $1,600 USD.

Heh... had a broken clutch cable on a Honda back in 1964..... when stopped I killed the engine, put the bike in first and hit the starter to get going.... got me home OK... 🙂

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

cool deal.. I think that what I had to do one time when i was going from the convention center where the group ride ended to the gas station. Got to a red light that changed on me at the last minute. It's a scary feeling hoping it dies!

Glad you made it home! Good thing you know how to get into your bikes’ guts! I ride Mitchell’s bike home with no clutch lever after a slow speed practice drop. Not great, but as you know, it can be done!!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Thanks man.. I"ll admit this was the first time I was in this situation but I knew it could be done. Sometime the best/only way to learn is when your in that situation.

It's good she got you home safe and sound. I bet that In-Town riding in a big group was fun and exciting!... Or not so much fun, but I bet you were WIDE awake!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Thankfully we had a large MHP escort so we were able to ride thru all the stop signs and red lights going to the convention center but leaving I was as lucky but only hit one or two red lights..

I’m not sure if I’d ride 122 miles on a perfectly running sporty. My low gas light used to come on around 100 miles. 💪

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Mine will usually go around 130-150 miles but I get around 50mpg on mine

Ya done what I woulda done! I been ridding for 50 years and never towed a bike home!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

That quite a feat that I can't say. Was riding on a Sunday out of town on my old Africa Twin that has tubes in the tire. I hadn't had the bike very long so I didn't know it. We tired to plug it and yea, talk about destroying the inter tube. Needless to say I carry a front and rear tube. But my brother in law had to come get me as I had to be at work the next day.

Not a good feeling being that far away from home and bike acting up. Glad to see you made it. 👍

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Thank you sir. I was glad to see the meridian sign for sure.

TAR 👋👍🤘😎

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

FLIP!!!!✌✌✌

I found they make a bigger throwout bearing I can use in mine it's just physically bigger the bearings and the two big heavy washers they might do for Sportster 2

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the information.

Broken Harley that's a new one

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha.. that's a fact! Thanks for watching!

Yeah my shovelhead clutch was trashed I couldn't figure out what it was and that's what it was it was the throwout bearing they had boogered it up.. when they put the 5-speed training in there

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Dang sorry to hear that. Hopefully it wasn't too bad of a repair. My friend i talk about in the video has put a jockey shift/foot clutch on his shovelhead!

@MoeLarrycurly1

2 ай бұрын

@@theadventurousrider and on top of it there's three or four different links of Rod that go through the transmission.. and then I have a different than stock transmission so yeah it's it's a puzzle

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

@@MoeLarrycurly1 sounds like a fun time if your having to do repairs which is hopefully not very often.

Looks like a perfect time to add a Soo Ah Cide shifter on that bike!

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Lol... Saddletramp said the same thing.. if it was something other than a sport or I was making it a chopper maybe.. but not this time.

I'm glad you made it home. It sure beats a tow bill.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Oh man there ain't tell what that would have cost me.

Why didn’t you try to adjust some of the clutch lever slack out of it with adjuster in the clutch cable?

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

That adjustment is for the cable Freeplay spacing from the clutch cable feral into the clutch lever housing... It was still at the 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch the book recommends

Write a check, no more group rides! lol.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

LOL... i'm not REALLY that big of a fan of group rides anyways as there is just too much slinky that goes on in them. 2 or 3 people i'm OK but too may more than that i'm don't know if i'll do again, atleast on the bikes i have now. We shall see.

@Shadowrider-mc6nz

2 ай бұрын

I did a parade ride once, we were all honking our horns. Well, didn’t the horn stop working? Had to go with air horns…never did a parade ride ever again. lol

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

LOL.. it's always something.

What did the group ride have to do with your clutch failure?

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

It went out during the middle/end of the group ride. At the very end of it when everyone was trying to pull into the parking area I had to kill the bike while in first gear(wouldn't shift into netural) in order to keep from running into the back of someone as I pulled the clutch in and it kept moving.

It's not the group ride it's the way you are riding

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Since I wasn't the only one who broke down I would say that! Thanks for watching.

Harley Crapinson, heavy, doesn't accelerate, doesn't brake, but breaks. And still high price per weight. Your faith must be strong ;-). I remember walking over a green pedestrian crossing and first row is a proud member of the cult with his two wheeled vibrator. We were by three, all motorcyclists and we did lifted our hands like grabbing the handle bar and shook like he from his vibrator. The guy laughed, so no small minded person. But what to say, my KTM is also no reliability wonder, but at 150 kg and 75HP and half the price of the Harley I can run circles around the vibrator

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

Your not lying about the breaking and high price per weight... That is funny but you had to admit as a kid they would rather look, listen, and twist the throttle of a Harley over most ADV bikes. It has gotten pretty ridiculous how expensive they have gotten which is why i'll probably never own a new one. Just keep ride the really old ones.

Throwout bearing

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

It's the one on the back of the adjustment screw i'm pointing at. When you look it up on ronnie's HD it just says bearing (HD 8885) so if that's what they call the throwout bearing then your are correct.

Sounds like you don't know how to use your clutch.

@theadventurousrider

2 ай бұрын

When your in a group ride of over 200 bikes that's about a mile or two long and half or 3/4 doesn't know how to ride in a large group so your slinking almost the entire 150 miles your having to shift in and out of first and second and coasting it's what happens. Thanks for watching!