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I had a throttle cable break ,so I used a piece of string attached to the carb slide and the other end tied to my knee .Stuck my knee out and vroom vroom off we go . 
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I generally have spare cables taped alongside the main ones but a length of string (or shoelace) has many uses it would appear. I used to make or repair the cables on my old Brit bikes but they were never very reliable.
I had the large dome nut fall off the bottom of the carb of my old BSA. This lets all the petrol out quite quickly. So I scoured the road for this nut for ages, I didn't find the original but, by good fortune, found something similar but quite a bit larger. I managed to lash this onto the bottom of the carb with iron wire and although it leaked a fair bit it did get me home. If you carried everything that could go wrong with a BSA as spares you'd need very large panniers!
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I bodged an exhaust that had cracked at the flange near the head on a dr650
using jb weld and a piece of fence wire wrapped round the header and then i put loops in the end and attached the loops to the bike frame with a bungie cut in half and knots in the cut ends.............the jb weld and bodge got me the 300 miles home!
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We would love to see some pictures of these bodges if you have some
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Spark plug used as replacement for the transmission drain plug after I lost it (and all the oil) around 100km earlier on the Birdsville track last year.
More recently (3 months back), a couple of cable ties used to hold the front subframe and fairing (20kg) on after the metal mounting tabs snapped off on the old telegraph trail(Cape York).
I always find corrugations are great for discovering the weak point on any bike.
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Picked up a 2 1/2" deck screw in a rear tire. Blew the tube and broke the rim strip into several pieces. Didn't have enough tape to go around the rim. So I cut a new strip out of the blown tube. Inserted a new tube and rode on.
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I used bungees to resecure my top box after one of its retaining parts snapped in a tumble. It has worked so well I have just left them in place. The hooked ends of the bungee loop into the top box and so when you close the lid and lock it they cannot be removed.
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- Used the trunk of a small tree and fencing wire to shore up a trailer leaf spring with three (out of six) leaves broken. That got me 300km until I found a similar spring in a wreckers that was good enough to get me home.
- Wired an electric fuel pump to the tail light for a friend when the pump circult failed somewhere in the loom in the middle of nowhere. (No, it wasnt just a fuse!)
- Wrapped cardboard around a chafed wiring loom that was intermittently shorting on the frame.
- Used a rubber band and a paperclip to replace a broken throttle return spring.
- Replaced a welsh plug (freeze plug) in a block with a section of tree branch whittled down to size and jammed in the hole. The wood expanded and it remained leak-free for weeks!
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Hi,
My bottom steering bearing broke, after riding sand in Sudan
so i replaced it with the one from the top. For the top i bought a normal bearing that fitted more or less. While taking this foto i got arrested by the police. To take fotos in Sudan is illegal:
Transafrika - Motorbike travel tour through africa part 1
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