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1/5 turn throttles

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:32 pm
by Chaosfruitbat
Anybody tried a quarter turn, or similar? My standard throttle feels like i have to dislocate my shoulder to get it fully open, so thinking of a Rick Oliver HRC 1/5 turn throttle.

Pros and cons please?

Re: 1/5 turn throttles

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:37 pm
by Drunkn Munky
I use ricks HRC throttle and i find it perfect, its not as quick action as some QA throttles ive had but thats not a bad thing.

Re: 1/5 turn throttles

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:54 am
by amorti
I messed with the throttle on my old T595 as I had the same feeling. It was really quite a lot better, in fact I couldn't think of any disadvantage to doing it. I was able to just change the original throttle tube out for a bigger one from a later model.

Is there any chance that you could do the same as I did and just swap out the pivot tube?

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Re: 1/5 turn throttles

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:04 am
by Chaosfruitbat
Thanks guys. I'm liking the potential cheap version of switching throttle pivot tubes, but the HRC one is not too expensive. I'll have a chat with my bank account on payday and see what I can do :)

Re: 1/5 turn throttles

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:29 pm
by Username
My VFR has 1/6 turn throttle. Don't where it came from, was on there when the bike came from Japan as were some other funny bits ;-).