Some of you guys may have seen these...You replace your bar ends with these type of bar ends and it makes it a throttle lock. The ones I saw on a bike was on a Kawi and were chrome to also dress it up and looked like a typical bar end. The way it worked was if you pulled back on the throttle with the bar end, it would lock the throttle for cruise control. To disengage, you simply twist just the bar end a little and it unlocked, or just roll foward on the throttle and bar end at the same time. Kinda hard to explain, but anyone know where to get these? I checked with my local shops and they've never heard of anything like this. The guy told me where he got them, but of course I forgot the website. These would do wonders for the right hand on a long ride.
Bar end throttle lock...where to get them?
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There are other types of cruise as well. They have the one that goes between your grip and the forward controls... you flip down this piece and basically wedges itself to hold the grip in the current position.
I'm with you guys.... never did like it for bikes. Just seems to risky!
I'm with you guys.... never did like it for bikes. Just seems to risky!
It disengages easily and I'll only be using it on the highway during long rides. I just hope for that kinda money, they do what it says. These seem safer than the ones gas man was mentioning too. I was hoping someone on here has a set and how well they do work. I don't want to be going done the road and it disengages and the engine brake throws me foward! :yikes:
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Yeah I was talking about the vista cruise...as seen here on ebay.
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I can speak from experience. The vista cruise can be backed off by simply rolling off the throttle. I've never seen one you couldn't. I do like the throttlemister concept for both looks and function. If it wasn't so pricey. I would get one for my Gixxer. I just don't ride it on long trips enough to justify the expense.F4i Guy said:
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You don't have to twist it in an emergency. All they do is put constant pressure on the throttle. You can back it off by simply rolling off the throttle. The big warning about all theses things is, You have to back off the throttle. Not just let it go.
Well the ones I saw, the throttle worked as normal...unless you rolled back on the throttle and the end at the same time, then it locked. He disengaged it by just rolling the end foward or the throttle and the end at the same time. I know they're pricey, but doesn't look bad at all and when I take it to work, its 32 miles one way and about 27 miles of it is open highway. Living in PA, there is a lot of wide open straight roads without a red light in sight, so I would get my use out of it! Maybe if there are enough people that want to get these, maybe we could contact the site owner if he'd do a group buy.
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