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Custom Motorcycle Parts
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 15:02 |
 News From Scott…
Take a ride with me often enough and you will realize that even though
I work at a motorcycle shop, my stuff breaks down from time to time…twice to be exact.
As the result of an off-road dunking (in an earlier story), my XR
became unreliable. A wiring problem reared its ugly head, the kind of
problem that does not appear until you are a few miles from the truck,
naturally. So…I practiced being towed. The first time I was towed
using a strap; the second was with a set of battery cables (its all we
had).
Here’s what I learned:
You must be careful when the person doing the towing takes off, slows
down, or speeds up. Do not tie the strap to the towed bike, instead,
wrap it around the bar (handlebar?) so you can hold it with one hand,
loose enough to let go when you need to. The person towing cannot see
the slack in the strap so the bike will get snatched from time to time.
So…the second time I got towed, and after breaking the jumper cables
three or four times (they were light duty motorcycle types), we found
that if you tie an inner tube in line, it takes the snatch out of the
equation.
With that important need in mind, I put together some straps that are
designed to take up the slack and reduce the whiplash effect. (Not
unlike the inner tube)
I have a few in stock and in two varieties…for two and four-wheelers. The difference is in the strength and size.
The large is $30 and the small is $25. They are both 15 feet long.
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