| Author | Message | ||
     Kirb |
Went for a nice ride yesterday and decided to take it up to 100 down a 1/2 mile section before my home... then tried to slow down...throttle stuck WFO. Shut it down with the kill switch. I was right near the subdivision, so I pushed it home. Took off the air box cover getting ready for some breather tube or some other nonsense...one of the large circle spring clips that hold down the black velocity 'stack' just above the throttle plates came loose and was sitting on top of the plates in a very mocking 'I tried to kill you..haha' kind of look. There was no other binding. I took the lower air box off to make sure everything was cool, but the clip was the only thing loose or a possible problem. Yikes. Hope that doesn't happen again, but I don't have a lot of positive mojo that it won't. | ||
| Crazyhawk99 |
Glad to hear it didn't cause you to go down and that you were able to determine the cause. Thanks for sharing. | ||
| Court |
Nice try . . . but unless you put it through a front door and land on a couch . . . .well, you get the execution points, but not the style points. | ||
| Syonyk |
And the great thing about a motorcycle is that if you do stick WFO, you've got options. The clutch or kill switch will both work perfectly. Clearly, this is not acceptable on a modern vehicle. We need to update motorcycles to have an automatic transmission, and a "push to start" switch that takes a 3 second press to turn the engine off in an emergency. I mean, how else will you get national media attention by yapping on your cell phone to 911 claiming your accelerator stuck??? Glad to hear you dealt with it sanely  | ||
| Sparropie |
Ditto brother.  | ||
| Hootowl |
Shame on you for taking matters into your own hands. You should have just called 911 and pretended to ride the brakes for a few hours. | ||
| Vinb |
Wow no one has a Toyota comment ahaha | ||
| Mtch |
had that happen many years ago on my yamaha RD350LC. lucky it was a straight piece of road. i had just come out of a junction, opened it up, and AAAARGHhhhhhhhhh!!1 wtfdid? (Do I Do, we all know the first part dont we?) kill switch and clutch, but it was stuck open as i found out when the speed dropped and put the kill switch back to run. took it to bits at the side of the road, was just a sticky cable, but OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! | ||
| Froggy |
I once got some water in my throttle cables on my XB, it would intermittently freeze up when riding around below 40°F. Made commutes randomly interesting | ||
| Jules |
Cool - free cruise control | ||
| Reepicheep |
My klr 250 did that. Took me about a week to notice.  glad you kept your head and it came out ok! | ||
| Xbud |
Congrats on keeping your cool and making a good call without panicking, thats a lot of power to get stuck at WOT. | ||
| Mountainstorm |
Quick thinking there saved your skin. Good job. I had a worn cable one the X-1 keep my throttle partially open and that was un-nerving. Did you get the spring clip reinstalled to your satisfaction? | ||
| Kaotikevo |
so, does this mean i'm not the only one who thinks the toyota drivers with the phone calls need to learn how to drive??? how refreshing!! I've been arguing with some of the folks I work with because I claimed that stupidity killed prolly 80% of the toyota drivers that didn't know how to shut down in an emergency. | ||
| Ccryder |
Good thinking and keeping your cool. He could not have learned from the Toyota drivers since he couldn't use both feet on the brakes!! ;+} | ||
| Kirb |
The spring clip is going to be re-investigated tonight...it doesn't sit in the groove as well as it should, so vibration might have worked it out. I have to check my rear brake as the rotor is slightly discolored from my pushing on the brake in the process of trying to get the throttle closed (1-2 seconds) and then just shutting down and stopping. I'm sure it was a tad warm. The one toyota prius driver did have a problem with the gen3 prius...it has no key. There is a prox key fob that allows you to push the button on the dash to drive. The shifter is a switch that tells the car what direction to move. I can imagine ~IF~ the electronics locked full on and the engine was keeping things charged/moving that that guy did have a problem. I am calling BS only because no one else could replicate the issue once the car was stopped. | ||
| Syonyk |
"Slightly discolored" typically means "nicely bedded in" for brake rotors. | ||
| Nickg |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4PtafRB9c | ||
| Porky |
Quick, somebody call Toyota and the evening news! Maybe there's a conspiracy to scare the crap out off people!!! I've had this happen a few times on bikes and at least once in a car. Seriously though, If your 1125 is stock and no one has touched the cables, injectors or solenoid, I'd report the problem to HD and maybe even EBR, just in case! Sam (Message edited by porky on March 24, 2010) |
