Throttle Lock Installed

[SANGER_A2]

I do a lot of miles on the motorway so a lot of it is travelling along at the same time. I decided a throttle lock would be the closest I could get to cruise control. I went for the cheapest option as it was just an experiment and it was made by Bike-It and cost me about £35.
The negatives are:-

• It was a bit of a pain to fit and needed tweaking
• My brake lever has to be pushed further away which means it sits at a bit of an angle to the throttle
• It's pretty ugly. Painting it helped, but only a bit
• I lost space on the grip as well so it's not as comfy as it could be

The positives are:-

• Riding is much more comfortable now
• My wrist is much less tired
• I can relax either hand when riding now
• My fuel consumption has improved a lot (I'm staying at the same speed more rather than accelerating & decelerating all the time)

I definitely wouldn't do without a throttle lock. But I think the bar-end options are better. I want to tap my Renthal bars so I can use standard Yamaha bar-ends. Then I will buy some Throttlemeister bar-ends and use them.

Here are all the bits I got with the kit. The instructions were a bit pants, but looking at other ones on the Internet already installed on bikes helped work out which way round to install things:-



Eventually I worked out this is the way to fit the rubber inner into the ring:-



I had to trash the part of my grip that normally has a rubber bit that sits against the throttle friction ring to fit the throttle-lock over it:-



Here is the ring installed on the grip. Later on I used an extra layer of thin rubber between the lock and the grip as it didn't fit well enough:-



Here you can see it loosely installed. I haven't tightened the grub screws to attach it to the grip yet, or joined the part that sits on the bars to the part that attaches to the grip:-



Here is a view from above. I actually ended up filing down the sides of the metal ring to make it thinner as it was catching on the plastic it was supposed to smoothly spin on:-


Here you can see it all tightened up after I've filed down the ring. The silver nut that has the star washer underneath it in that picture actually vibrated out a few weeks later and I had to replace it with another that I had to recut the threads for and made it stick using lots of loctite!:-


Here's a side view of it installed:-


Here's a top-down view:-


Here you can see it with the lock engaged to stop the grip from moving:-


I decided to paint the silver bits to make them stand out less:-


Here you can see it all looking a bit more stealthy:-


Here is a top view:-


Here's a side view:-


And a view from slightly further away:-

 

[QwickFliCk]

i have the go cruise throttle control its a little bit harder to manipulate but i does the job

 

[SANGER_A2]

i have the go cruise throttle control its a little bit harder to manipulate but i does the job

Yeah I looked at that one. It's quite a nice, simple cheap option, but as you said, this one is much easier to use. Also, it's more subtle and it wasn't much more expensive than the Go Cruise! Plus, I thought I'd go for the real thing rather than getting something that may not work properly!

 

[Botch]

I've got the Throttlemeister, it looks good and works, but I haven't yet figured out how to set it safely on the interstate (you have to twist it with your throttle hand...).