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When I first heard about the TBW it was not a good feeling.

 

Same with me on the fingers. old habits die hard and sometimes thats a good thing.

 

And they knew it was the TBW how?

 

Good question. I would assume that he was riding with someone else that seen it? and the fact that it had been in the shop for this earlier.

 

Even a carbcan lock open on you. I've had it happen to me in heavy traffic on my 79. A piece of throttle cable frayed and locked the slide 1/3 open. I pulled in the clutch, let it out, pulled it in, etc. and rode it to a side street and hit the kill button when I could coast.

I've wondered about fly by wire on a bike. Think I trust my current cable setup on an S&S and on the Buel throtle body more.

 

That's really sad. Prayers to the family.

I had my throttle stick and accelerate right after I had my new handlebars put on. Turned out to be that the throttle housing was either too close or too far on the handlebar and not fitting quite right in the handlebar holes. They moved it, and it's been fine for 2500 miles. Still, makes me wonder....

 

Profinish posted about this problem on the 29th. It's happened before. Maybe the MOCO will do something about it not that some poor bast*rd lost his life because of it.

 

I too have had a throttle stick on me. Used the clutch until I could kill the bike.
Heck I even had the throttle boss opening up the throttle too much and had to use the clutch, until I realized what the matter was. Cold day - too many clothes etc.
So I really do question this line of thinking.
I mean it's what "some" people love to hear. Like when electricity came out = it killed people...
TBW has been around a long time if anyone really cares to investigate. Not new technology. So when I hear "new fangled thing" I have to laugh.

At any rate it's a shame another brother died on his bike whatever the reason.

 

Sorry to hear about his death [&o]I hope Sindi makes a full recovery! I never could figure out why Harley would want to go to the expense and trouble to replace the throttle cables anyway, I've never trusted them even on cars, my wifes Hemi ram has it and I hate it! The computer can override any input you give the throttle, burn outs are a thing of the past, shame too, that hemi feels like it would romp if the computer would let it [:@]

 

That's the main reason I choose a used 05' and stayed away from that. Looked like an accident waiting to happen. All it does is give the bike that clean wireless look, no advantages, just another thing to go wrong.... I am just waiting for the passenger seat frame to break and kill someone on that damn Rocker C. Stupid MOCO needs to take a step back and think about this!