Broken clutch cable on a group ride!

[Grimly]

Last year I broke the cable on the R1100R. That required a whole different strategy to get home.

After I put the R100 barrels and pistons on the R80, the clutch cable broke at some point later.
All was well getting home until the last hill, where I got stuck in a traffic snarl-up and had to stall it.
Brurrger.... I just thumbed the start button and off it went, chug chug chug... up that damned hill from zero mph.
The retained R80 gearing helped, I'm sure, but the start-up torque played a huge part.

But what became of the leather jacket? :05.18-flustered:

Somebody had one up recently. Perhaps that was it, or a pic of it, at least.​

 

[850 Combat]

The jacket was a Tourmaster. It was tough. It was completely ruined, but I would not have bet that a leather jacket could crush a cast iron disc and brake disc and rip both the cast iron lugs on the Girling brake caliper. The jacket when wrapped on the side of the brake and hub actually dished the spokes and moved the rim to the left. The calipers were the same as what Eddie Lawson's Kawasaki Superbike used except for being the cast iron version, not the aluminum version.

I had ridden down a mile or so dirt road to a marina on the Colorado River to get some hydration and and some air conditioning. I should have rechecked the jacket when I got to the 2 lane paved road. I liked Triumph and BSA tripples, but that was a T160, the E start version. They had weird (to me) ergonomics and poor ground clearance for leaning. I had purchased a Triumph Hurricane in Maine. Seller made me buy the Trident with it. Shipped the Hurricane and rode the T160. I was going maybe 40 when this happened. Just leisurely getting up to speed on the pavement on a pretty deserted two lane.

 

[850 Combat]

Most bikes with E start I've owned will take off in gear with the bike in first gear. The Trident did.

 

[Grimly]

Most bikes with E start I've owned will take off in gear with the bike in first gear. The Trident did.

Up hill... a short and quite steep one.

 

[argonsagas]

Most bikes with E start I've owned will take off in gear with the bike in first gear. The Trident did.

That was my thinking, too. Once the bike gets moving you can ride all day without a clutch.